Imee left by PAL [Philippine Airlines] for San Francisco and Monterrey’s Sta. Catalina School run by the Benedictine nuns. She will be coming back for the Christmas holidays.
She was in such a hurry that we did not give her any cash nor get her telephone number. But she should be able to manage.
Played golf with Gen. Maraden Panggabean, Indonesian Minister of State for Defense and Security and Vice Commander in Chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces—at 6:30 PM—teeing off from across the Pasig on Tee No. 1. He lost first ball in the water and crossed on the second.
Amb. [Ramon] Monet Nolan brought me the sugar act of the U.S. which provides that in case of expropriation of American property without compensation, the sugar quota can be suspended or a $20 per ton levy imposed by the U.S. President. ·
I have called the sugar industry leaders to a conference on Wednesday.
Directed that the MIA [Manila International Airport] men (Customs, Gen. Man. Luis Tabuena and CAA [Civil Aviation Administration] Adm. [Jesus] Singson) stop the practice of allowing non-passengers to enter the area of the departing or arriving passengers. This because of a stowaway in one of the foreign planes and the complaint of the international pilots that we are not taking precaution against possible hijacking.
The propagandists of the communists—among them Sen. Ramon Mitra keep insisting that the terrorism and the bombings by the leftists and subversions are perpetrated by the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] to condition the people to martial law.
I told Gen. [Hans] Menzi today that the Bulletin News Editor, Antonio Zumel, is one of the three propagandists of the Communists. I told him that the two others are with Chronicle and Taliba (without mentioning [Ernesto] Granada and Fadol of those newspapers). He admitted that Zumel was a Red. I must reassign my aide, Lt. Col. Zumel his brother.
Official Gazette for September 3, 1972: THE PRESIDENT did not receive any callers and instead worked on official papers and other matters of state in his private study.