The Spanish Ambassador brought the letter of Generalissimo [Francisco] Franco asking the retention of Spanish as one of the official languages in the Philippines.
Official Gazette for December 4, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS said that “the New Society will be built by a people who have responded to the call of hard work, sacrifice and excellence, and the individuals who constitute it and the quality of purpose and resolve in their lives will make it vital and alive.” In a speech delivered for him by Secretary of Public Information Francisco S. Tatad at the 40th anniversary awards banquet of the Philippine Amateur Radio Association, the President said: “The New Society will be founded on the character and will of our people. This means the regeneration of men along with the institutions in our society. In the past society, we installed individual ambition instead of brotherhood instead of developing self-reliance and self-possession, we depended on privilege and mendicancy in order to prevail and, at times, survive; instead of working in cooperation and fraternity, we descended into fratricidal violence in our speech and deed; and in place of initiative and ability, we employed fraud and corruption in the pursuit of success.
POINTING OUT that the Philippines is facing a very serious challenge in the traditional exports, with copra prices going down and coconut oil facing numerous competitors, the President ordered the Board of Investments to work out a plan with textile millers for the improvement of the quality of local textiles. The President said “something must be done” to save the export trade which the administration is trying very hard to promote, and one of the most promising fields is in textile products. The President stated he has been receiving numerous orders, one of them for $1.3 billion, but that before entertaining such orders, “we must see to it that our products are acceptable internationally and can compete on prices internationally.”
ONE OF THE most important programs of government is the program of development for the young. The President, addressing the opening session of the first national conference on children and the youth, which was attended by some 400 delegates, pointed out that the Philippines is a very young nation. “Perhaps more than any other developing nation, the Philippines must place great importance on the youth because 62 per cent of our people are aged below 25,” the President said.
TRADE AND TOURISM Secretary Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. announced that the Philippines has exceeded its sugar quota to the United States this year, making an overshipment of 34,456 STRV (short ton raw value). Against the 1972 sugar supply quota of 1,401,761 STRV (short ton raw value), the Philippines has shipped 1,424,547 STRV ol raw sugar and 11,670 STRV of refined sugar; making a total of 1,436,217 short tons. The overshipment of 34,456 short tons, which is the equivalent of 29,970 LTCW (long ton cubic weight) will ensure .the filling of the Philippine quota for 1S72 even if two of the vessels carrying Philippine sugar fail to arrive at the discharge port in the United States before January 1, 1973, according to the -report submitted by the Sugar Quota Administration to Mr. Quiazon.
GRADUATES OF THE National Agricultural Skills Training Program can avail themselves of the credit facilities of the local rural banks without need of collaterals. The agricultural skills training program, launched in March this year, is part of the government effort to accelerate socio-economic growth in the rural areas. The program is being undertaken jointly by the National Manpower and Youth Council Department of Education and Culture, Bureau of Agricultural Extension, Department of Local Government and Community Development, Central Bank and the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines.
SERVICEABILITY of a writer to the cause of progress lies in his capacity and willingness to articulate, to edify and thereby give definitive directions to what otherwise might be random and diffuse exertions. This observation was voiced by Secretary of Public Information Francisco S Tatad in a speech before the Association of Ilocano Writers. He said that if “we accept this, then it becomes apparent that the writer’s first function in the service of progress would be to give a thoughtful basis or a rational impetus for vigorous and concerted action.” He added: “But vigorous action demands sacrifices and men do not make an offering of their toil unless they see themselves as moving towards a desirable and attainable horizon. That horizon, lined by social, economic and political goals, must be made vivid and valid in the minds of our people, and this can be be achieved through competence and skill.”
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Called in a conference with Dir. of the National Library [Serafin] Quiason and Dir. of National Museum [Godofredo] Alcasid as well as Sec. of Trade and Tourism and Gov. [Elizabeth Marcos] Keon so the first three can participate in the Quadri-Centennial of Christianity of the Northern Luzon provinces in Laoag, Ilocos Norte.
Then the conference of the textile manufacturers with Gen. [Gregorio] Licaros, DBP [Development Bank of the Philippines] Acting Chairman Ocampo, [Vicente] Ting Paterno and Sec. [Troadio] Quiazon [Jr.] on trade for the production of raw materials for the garment industry specially because of the $1.3 billion market offered by Janesco, Mr. Parker of which is coming.
Interview by Dick Konnerick of the Seattle Times, formerly assistant editor of the Free Press.
Then speech before the First Conference of the Interdepartmental Committee on Youth and Children. 62% of our population are below 25 years old and 31% are from 10-25 years. So the programs is addressed to most of our people. I attach copy of my speech or the basis for it.
Maj. Eduardo Martelino has been seen in Jolo by both Col. America and Gen. [Jose] Rancudo. Last night Gen. Rancudo contacted him at night by jeep and a few minutes walk eastward to convey my message that he will be pardoned for his offenses of smuggling with PAF [Philippine Air Force] planes and escaping from detention if he will infiltrate the Moslem outlaws and the communists under [Nur] Misuari, gather the outlaws, turn them on the communists and the Sabah and Malaysian trained infiltrators as well as prepare to and infiltrate Sabah.
This may be the answer to the peace and order problem of Sulu.
Then I will reinstate the Sulu-Sabah trade.