Credentials presentation of Ambassador of Portugal.
Courtesy call of Mr. and Mrs. Weigley.
Briefing on the GMTFM [Greater Manila Terminal Food Market] by DBP [Development Bank of the Philippines] and cooperatives.
Housing for officers in Fort Bonifacio.
Areas in Science and Research that should be emphasized—Gen. Medina—including nuclear power plant, milk from coconut, simpler process of metal extraction, Forest Products research, typhoon moderation etc.
Convention of Judges and Fiscals—the constitutional revolution.
Then report of Gen. [Fidel] Ramos. I ordered all out force against the rebels before negotiations. Two APC [armored personnel carrier] and more units.
Official Gazette for October 23, 1972: ADDRESSING some 800 executive judges, provincial and city fiscals and legal officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, President Marcos called on the judiciary to assume a big role in the Reformation. The President told the government judges and prosecutors that if there was any immediate cause for revolution or rebellion, it is injustice. Pie said that both the quality and quantity of justice in the Philippines had been the subject of criticism and political oratory. The backlog of 103,000 pending cases in the courts of justice clearly indicated justice delayed, the President stated.
While it is necessary to uphold the constitutional ruling on Parity Rights, this matter shall be pursued in the spirit of justice and fairness to all. The President gave this reassurance in a speech read for him by Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr. before the conference of Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers, sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines. “If expropriation is to be undertaken, just compensation wall be forthcoming,” the President told the conference which was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Makati, Rizal.
President Marcos convoked the Cabinet in a two-hour meeting to get a progress report on the administration’s on-going projects. Discussed at the meeting: (1) public works projects, particularly in Central Luzon and the Manila area which suffered heavily during the last floods; (2) completion of the Greater Manila Terminal Food Market; (3) organization of cooperatives to spur the land reform program; and (4) progress of scientific research in the Philippines.
Letter of Implementation issued by the President abolished the Office of Agrarian Counsel and created in its place the Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance under the Department of Agrarian Reform. This Letter which was issued in pursuance to Presidential Decree No. 1 of September 24, reorganizing the executive branch of the national government, also creates the Citizens Legal Assistance Office under the Department of Justice.
In the meanwhile, the President received the credentials of Ambassador Frederico Jose de Souza Teixera de Sampayo, the new envoy of Portugal to the Philippines. Ambassador Sampayo succeeded Ambassador Julio Menimo Salcedas who had been called to the home office for reassignment. In receiving the letters of credence of the new envoy, the President expressed the hope that the close understanding between the Philippines and Portugal should give rise to other means of assistance for their mutual benefit
Tonight we previewed the PAL [Philippine Airlines] five screen presentation of the Philippines—and NBC’s Jack Reynaldo film on the Tasadays after badminton [sic].