Spent the whole day on board. We are now between Negros and Cebu. At about 1:00 PM we should reach the southern end of Cebu and Negros and be at the Mindanao Sea to be at Iligan (IISMI [Iligan Integrated Steel Mills Inc.] pier) at 7:30 AM.
Dictated the outline for the second book, Strategy for Development. Then an hour ago I continued dictation on it. This morning I dictated a part of the chapter on CounterSubversions.
Read the paper by Dr. Goh Keng Swee Minster of Defense of Singapore and a commentary on it by Mr. Denis Warner, an Australian writer presented at the ThirtyThird Annual Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science, held at Canberra in January, 1967.
And the Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare (23 Summary Accounts).
Official Gazette for September 24, 1971: President Marcos in a memorandum asked Budget Commissioner Faustino SyChangco “to strive at all time to emphasize” the release of funds for infrastructure and other development projects rather than for operating expenditures. The President further said that efforts should always be exerted to maintain a balanced budget, adding that if the general revenue is not adequate to provide essential operations of the government, arrangements should be made to borrow from non-inflationary sources.
The President’s memo to Commissioner Sy-Changco was only one of the directives issued by the Chief Executive in the course of his desk work on board the RPS Ang Pangulo while en route to Iligan City. Among other actions, the President appointed Ramon C. Aquino as member of the Presidential Investigating Committee created under Administrative Order No. 50 of April 18, 1967.The committee, headed by Dr. Gaudencio Garcia, was empowered to investigate cases assigned to it by the President.