Am devoting most of my time to my new book and the theories on guerilla war.
Although the Solicitor General seems to be against the filing of the libel case against Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.], I insisted as this is the only way in which I can wash my name of the disrepute Aquino has cast upon it. History would question why I did not meet these deliberate falsehoods with outraged indignation.
Official Gazette for October 14, 1971: President Marcos limited his callers to a few government officials who had urgent matters to take up relative to their respective agencies, even as he focused once again on desk work.
In the course of the day, the President designated Secretary of Public Works and Communications David M. Consunji as executive director of the Presidential Committee on Housing and Urban Resettlement with a view of effecting closer coordination in the implementation of the government’s, housing program.
As such, Secretary Consunji assumed the executive functions of the Committee, including those exercised by the committee’s action officer, who become a member of the committee.
Among other actions, the President directed the Price Control Council to take an official stand on the directive of Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources Arturo R. Tanco, Jr., suspending for a period of 10 days the price ceiling on rice set by the PCC in five Mindanao and Visayan provinces.
At the same time, the President ordered that Secretary Tanco’s directive be frozen pending official action on the matter by the PCC. Secretary Tanco was reported to have suspended the rice price ceiling in Cebu on the promise of the rice traders that they would dump all their stocks into the market. The President issued the order to prevent possible conflict of policy between the PCC and the Presidential Committee on Rice.