10:00 PM
Talaga Bay
We showed the Town and Country photographer Slim Aarons and writer Linda Ashland Limbones Bay and Island where we saw the sailboat Cygnet (It means a young swan) owned by Richard Brown, the Senior Vice-President of PAL [Philippine Airlines] for Technical Services. On board was a Miss Ward who is apparently an utusan of [Benigno] Benny Toda [Jr.], President of PAL and who helped Bongbong buy his clothes when he first arrived in London last year; and Mr. and Mrs. [Hindstrong?] also from London who knew Imelda. Slim, the photographer insisted on taking pictures of me water-skiing although the sea was rough, with Linda Ashland on the long tow rope. And on the sailboat with the sail up.
Then at about 10:00 AM we came to Talaga Bay. Had lunch here. Took a nap. The Town and Country people went back to Manila by helicopter, while we went to the Free Trade Zone where the lighting system is up. Then to the Porto del Sol, the land development area by Asiatic Integrated and Republic Bank of Cong. Pablo Roman and Jose Roxas at the Mariveles Bagac Road several coves away from Talaga. Impressive development Roads laid out. Lots selling P70 a square meter. 200 already sold 1.5 kms. from the Free Trade Zone. Overlooks the coves and the China Sea.
We stayed up to 1:40 AM on board last night just talking. The two Americans are disturbed by the convulsions through which America is going. Drug addiction has become widespread. Gangs of 10, 11 and 12 year old children hold up solitary pedestrians for drug money.
The attitude is “What is in it for me?” And service is given with the hand out for money.
So different, they say, to the friendliness and the sincere hospitality shown by Filipino even in the hotels.
“No one loves America any longer,” was the conclusion.
And they kept asking what I thought would happen to the U.S. My answer was at what point of anarchy would a Julius Caesar take over the government as a dictator. Although, I
Official Gazette for February 20, 1972: NOW FREE from the usual schedule of callers, President Marcos devoted most of the morning and afternoon to desk work.
In the process, the President:
1. Issued a proclamation declaring Monday, February 21, as a special public holiday in Batangas, in deference to the death of Gov. Antonio Carpio.diately the plan to reorient the country’s educational system as recommended by the Presidential Commission to Survey Philippine Education.
The President ordered that the survey be implemented “not later than June, 1972, so it can be fully implemented by the end of 1973.”
added, it may be different to control the U.S. from one central point as it has two way centers of power.
Then I also observed that the academicians are now studying the world over whether the old concepts of democracy and freedom are still valid, or whether dictatorship or authoritarianism is not demanded for survival.
And wondered whether America is not showing the same symptoms the Roman Empire showed before its fall.
In the soft breeze and quiet of the bay I have been doing some reading. I have the books Beyond Freedom and Dignity by [B. F.] Skinner; The Emerging Japanese Superstate, Challenge and Response by Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute; The Challenge of World Poverty, A World Anti Poverty Program in Outline. A Summary and Continuation of Asian Drama, Remaking China Policy: U.S.-China Relations and Governmental Decision-making by Richard Moorsteen and Morton Abramowitz.
The second book, The Emerging Japanese Superstate lays the basis for the conclusion that the 20th century is the Japanese century.
But it is based on the projection of continued more-than-10% GNP [gross national product] growth annually which may not be true after the realignment of currencies including the yen and the dollar. For the growth may decrease if the Japanese do not handle it with imagination.
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