All the sugar warehouses and mills in Luzon have been sealed. We estimate we have 25,000 tons of refined sugar and another 25,000 tons of refined sugar, from centrifugal sugar in the mills and warehouses.
The INSUREFCO [Insular Sugar Refining Company] will start discharging sugar to the market tomorrow morning. I have directed Sec. [Troadio] Quiazon [Jr.] and Atty. Jose Unson to work on this.
Tomorrow we start working on the garbage problem. Then on the sewage problem in greater Manila.
Pres. Suharto sent his Chief Security Officer, Maj. Gen. [Tjokro Pranolo], to deliver ten tons of powdered milk manufactured in Indonesia. I received the crew of the Crusader plane they used (a trip of six hours) at 4:00 PM.
The powdered milk is partly from coconut. We must analyze it to see if our own experiments on powdered milk is [are] better than theirs.
Another U.S. CH 46 helicopter crashed at San Simon, Pampanga and burned, one the seven members of the crew, slightly injured. This is the second crash.
Gen. [Fidel] Ramos (Chief of PC [Philippine Constabulary]) reports landing in Cam. [Camarines] Sur of 60-70 rifles by motorized banca from Northern Luzon several weeks ago.
There is a report of an attack on San Vicente Port NE part of Cagayan. And the barrios on the east coast of Cagayan province have been taken over by the NPA [New People’s Army].
The communists are tenaciously holding on to their Pacific coast camps.
Official Gazette for August 13, 1972: THE PRESIDENT spent almost the whole day working on official papers in his private study and keeping in touch with government agencies engaged in relief and rehabilitation work.
The only caller received by the President was General Tjokro Pranolo, personal representative of President Suharto of Indonesia who presented to him a donation of 10 tons of powdered baby milk from the government of Indonesia for the flood victims.
In receiving the donation, the President requested General Pranolo to convey the appreciation and gratitude of the Filipino people for the demonstration of “oneness and unity in time of crisis.”
He also expressed the hope that he would be able to convey his personal thanks and gratitude to the Indonesian President and through him the Indonesian government and people.
General Pranolo was accompanied to Malacañang by the crew members of the Indonesian Air Force cargo plane which brought the donation to Manila and Indonesian Ambassador Kusno Utomo.
The ploy may be to cause a diversion in the plains west of the Sierra Madre but return to the Digoyo and Digollorin area to recover the arms they must have cached in some old camp or possibly a cave.
Although I think that they were able to escape from Digoyo, Digollorin and Divinisa with a substantial number of firearms.
And they may have been able to infiltrate them into Manila.
So we are preparing for the efforts at sabotage, terrorism and assassination in the city planned by the communists for the month of August and September as shown by captured documents and testimony of prisoners.