The Advisory Committee on Rice submitted its report. There seems to be no rice in the markets according to the press. But this may be due to the storms. There will be about 173,000 tons available for this month. They are beginning to arrive at ports of destination and it may take a week to distribute them.
Official Gazette for October 13, 1971: President Marcos continued giving priority attention to the problem of rice distribution in view of reports that rice dealers were withholding commercial rice from the public, a practice that usually induce a price spiral.
He called the ad hoc committee on rice to a meeting in Malacañang in the morning on the general rice situation, in the course of which he ordered the Rice and Corn Administration to keep a steady flow of RCA rice to the market, and the Price Control Council to flush out hoarded commercial rice and to enforce strictly the prices set by the council.
Acting Secretary of Commerce and Industry Troadio Quiazon, Jr., concurrent vice chairman of the Price Control Council, informed the President that PCC agents were preparing cases against 16 rice dealers who were suspected to have passed off RCA rice as commercial rice.
Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources Arturo R. Tanco, Jr., who arrived from a country-wide survey of rice harvests, briefed the conferees on the need to formulate of palay trading program as soon as possible.
Present at the conference’ besides Secretaries Tanco and Quiazon were Agriculture Undersecretary and concurrent RCA Chairman-General Manager Jose D. Drilon, Jr., Chairman Vicente Paterno of the Board of Investments, Secretary of Public Works and Communications David Consunji, Defense Undersecretary Efren I. Plana, and Assistant Executive Secretary Roberto V. Reyes.
Among other actions, the President issued an executive order setting the procedure for the disposition and disbursement of the proceeds from the sale of the rice donated to the Philippines by Japan. The Japanese government, in the wake of the rash of disastrous typhoons which hit the country in 1970, donated 10,000 metric tons of rice in assistance to the relief and rehabilitation operations undertaken by the private and public sectors here. Specific objectives and allocations of the proceeds from the said sale were proposed by the Philippines through Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose D. Ingles, and were approved by Ambassador Toshio Urabe of Japan, as follows:
1. Food and agricultural development
P4,500,000
2. Repair and construction of school houses in typhoon-damaged areas
3,000,000
3. MEDICARE Program
1,000,000
4. Relief from previous and future typhoons
500,000P9.000.000
Included under food and agricultural development were price stabilization measures, a livestock and poultry program, an intensified vegetable program, joint RP-Japan pilot farm projects, the Corn Downy Mildew program, manpower development, a nutrition program, fingerlings production and disposal, and expanded radio communications. The President designated the Rice and Corn Administration as the custodian agency for the rice donations and the proceeds from the sales.
The President received some callers in the morning. He spent most of the afternoon and early evening on state papers.
There are places where the local residents are now worried less the RCA [Rice and Corn Administration] rice brings down the price to less than cost of production. Thus in Albay palay has gone down from P35 per cavan to P22. Iloilo also seems to have plenty of supply.
We have prepared the country program for UNDP [United Nations Development Programme] outline of which I attach.
According to Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.], he is also filing libel cases against me. The Manila Times repeats the same libelous statements. Delegate [Jose] Bengzon [Jr.] offers his services to Aquino and denies his father is my lawyer.
I finalized the notes on the various theories of the “people’s war’’ or “protracted war” or “wars of liberation,” quoting from various texts.
I attach copy. It will be used for the memorandum in the Supreme Court on the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.
It has to be a simplified presentation of the theory of guerilla was because most books are too dedicated to detail as to be understandable by the non-expert in guerilla war or subversion.
I explained how [Vladimir] Lenin himself spoke of the ultimate objective being “to undermine through civil disturbances and political crises the will of the ruling class to govern, and, at the critical point, to take over state power through a well-planned and ably-directed insurrection;” “that Lenin used the cadres of industrial workers while Mao [Zedong] introduced the doctrine of the rural sanctuary which was physically separate from the enemy and which was defended by an armed force” from which base “the Communist Party seeks to extend its power and influence outwards” the taking over of rural areas to surround the cities which would then fall either by terrorism or of their own weight—and “instead of the swift insurrection, there must be the protected war;” that the contribution of Vietnamese guerillas to the theory of guerilla war is to replace Lenin’s secret cadres in the cities or Mao’s rural sanctuary with the destruction of the government administrative network by the simple expedient of assassinating village officials.