NBC interview on Tasaday settlement and the new baby.
Closed the Malacañan Hospital for the calamity formally. Most doctors are from the V. Luna. Others are supposed to go to Vietnam. But I just stopped the sending of a Philcon [Philippine Contingent] to Vietnam.
Taught Irene how to use an Olympus automatic still camera and a Fujiya Super-8 movie camera. In the golf course, the dogs and horses.
Express photographers came to take a pictorial for my birthday. Early morning heavy thinking in pajamas and lounging robe, exercising on the running platform, rowing machine,, stationary bicycle with Bongbong; Irene calling me to lunch tickling my ear with a ______, receiving a painting and singing at the piano with Imelda; preparing the three books: 1. Modern Theories in Revolutionary Warfare 2. The Dilemma of the Third World (3) The History and Future of Asia.
Conference with Gen. [Fabian] Ver and others on the contingency plans. I place Gen. [Romeo] Espino and Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile’s report in Envelope No. XXXIV-U.
The [William] Pomeroy article on Phil. Maoists [claiming] Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] is helping organize the NPA [New People’s Army], the Lopezes and [Joaquin] Roces helping the Maoists with [words?] and propaganda, the participation of the La Salle Brothers up to the printing of the communist paper “Ang Bayan,” the [Raul] Manglapus Christian Socialist Movement—is an eye opener. It is in the same envelope.
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Official Gazette for September 5, 1972: THE PRESIDENT received the personnel of the Malacañang Emergency Hospital, whom he congratulated for their good work in healing the sick, mostly flood victims, who had sought treatment at the hospital which was established as part of the relief and rehabilitation efforts.
Headed by Cdr. Artemio Pertiza, deputy commander and officer-in-charge of the hospital, and Maj. Jose Magsanoc, the hospital personnel paid their respects to the President and the First Lady.
Toward noon, the President was interviewed by Gerald Green and Jack Reynolds, producer and Asia operations manager, respectively, of the National Broadcasting Corporation, on Philippine policy on cultural minorities.
The NBC man also gave the President a picture of a Tasaday woman and her child, the first infant to be born since the discovery of the tribe.
The group was accompanied to Malacañang by John E. Nance of the Associated Press.
The rest of his working hours was spent on paper work.