Prepared the specific areas for clarification to be sought from the Supreme Court by the Solicitor Gen. like just compensation and no confiscation.
Imelda could not go to Leyte with the children as there is a low pressure area off Samar and it has been raining in Tacloban since last night. Weather deteriorating.
Right now it is raining here. Started raining since this morning at 9:00 AM—and up to now.
And I had a rise of my blood pressure because of lack of sleep. Slept from 11:00 PM to 2:30 AM then a snatch of sleep of about 30 minutes. So I felt tired this morning.
Had to take Librium 10 at noon to sleep after the doctors ([Juanita] Zagala, Huang, [Pacifico] Yap, [Paciencia] Disini in that order) saw me and Imelda fed me a light lunch in bed. Slept up to 4:20 PM.
Then talked to Sen. [Leonardo] Perez. Bert [Roberto] Sabido on the help Georgia-Pacific, the biggest wood company and plywood buyer in the U.S., could give our wood processors.
Had a splitting headache. Had to see my dentist at the PGB [Presidential Guard Battalion] clinic (Dr. Primo Gonzales) to have some fillings changed.
Then Dr. [Ariston] Bautista on my nose congestion.
Ordered rice to be procured by barter so that we do not spend any of our badly needed funds. (Barter is allowable only with countries we do not have diplomatic relations with—Red China for one)
Official Gazette for August 30, 1972: THE PRESIDENT directed Secretary of Foreign Affairs Carlos P. Romulo to formulate a proposal for the United Nations on the moderation of typhoons, rain and floods and other related natural disasters.
The President also ordered the foreign secretary to seek the world body’s participation in affording protection and/or assistance to countries afflicted by said natural disaster.
Earlier in the morning, the President received, among others, the 23-man Hongkong delegation competing in the RP-Hongkong Y.M.C.A. swimfest hosted by the Philippines.
Headed by Chris Polley, a New Zealander, and accompanied by Angel M. Golmenares, assistant executive secretary of the Philippine Y.M.C.A., the members of the delegation called on the President to pay their respect before leaving.
In receiving the delegation, the President expressed the hope that they would be able to promote greater understanding and friendly relations between their country and the Philippines “although you come at a time when the country is in the midst of a calamity.”
The President explained that with floods in the North and drought in the South, “we are in a real mess.”
Danding [Eduardo] Cojuangco [Jr.] seems to be the only one who can get Red China rice.
And the brown rice from the U.S. to be milled and bagged at the Free Trade Zone.
Mayor Layaoan was here. He is the man who was tortured and beaten up in the Nalundasan case but refused to be used as a witness against me. Now he is vice mayor of Bangui. And I am helping him all I can.
The tariff amendments may be approved by the Senate tonight.