Noche and [Fidel] Ramos report that their agents inside the NPA [New People’s Army] report that Gen. [Manuel] Yan sent some guns and radio equipment to [Benigno] Ninoy Aquino [Jr.] for the NPA on the second week of September. Through Dr. Geronimo of Tarlac, Tarlac we contacted Commander Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] in 1969.
Fantastic and unbelievable but I have ordered a confirmation.
Official Gazette for October 31, 1971: With no scheduled callers to attend to President Marcos had; all the time for important desk work in the morning and afternoon. The President started working on official papers at mid-morning, knocking off at 12:45 p.m. for lunch and rest. He resumed his paper work at about 3 p.m., in the course of which he signed, among others, the designation of Vicente P. Rodriguez, project director of the Bureau of the Treasury, as acting national treasurer. Rodriguez succeeded Ubaldo Carbonell, who died on October 28 following a heart attack.
After the elections I will have to retire Gen. [Manuel] Yan and Gen. [Felizardo] Tanabe!
I met the Liberal candidate for mayor, Ex-Vice Mayor Yaranon of Baguio City and worked out on agreement for him to support Nacionalista senatorial candidates. This kind of political ambivalence is prevalent among the Liberals.
I have decided to give the signal to the loyal supporters of my administration in the Cons. Con. [Constitutional Convention] to support a parliamentary form of government in the constitution, provided that it has stability and practically the same powers as the presidency.
And we are beginning to finalize a constitution that should be acceptable to all with one major political reform the parliamentary form of government, one major social and economic reform.
Then we should be able to submit this to a plebiscite in 1972 to make the constitution effective in 1973.