Written 1:30 PM
Sept. 2, 1973 as we
came home and finally went to
bed after a snack with Bongbong and
Irene at Irene’s room at 4:30 this
morning.
Am still busy going over the galley proof of “Notes on the Building of a New Society of the Philippines.” Am not happy with it and so have rewritten it three times. The last chapter is a hodgepodge of insertions right now.
Hope to finish the galleys tomorrow.
Spent the evening at the dinner for the Mosbachers, Bob and Sandra at the Cultural Center.
We signed the service contract of Mosbacher who is tied up with Husky Oil of Canada
Official Gazette for September 1, 1973: THE PRESIDENT promulgated Presidential Decree No. 282 authorizing stock transactions by members of an operating- stock exchange through members of any other operating stock exchange, when necessary, to execute customers’ orders. The transaction, according to the decree, should be pursuant to such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon between the executing brokers, provided that the customer shall not pay more than the authorized commission, and an appropriate report on the matter is submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC is authorized to promulgate such rules as may be necessary to implement the decree, and to impose fines, suspension or revocation of licenses of the guilty party for any violation thereof, as provided under existing laws.
DEPARTMENT of Trade moved to ensure further protection to investors in domestic corporations registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those with foreign connections. Following up a directive of the President, Secretary of Trade Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. directed SEC Commissioner Arcadio Yabyabin to prepare a list of domestic firms with foreign connections or tie-ups engaged in the securities and investment business. He likewise directed the commission to local into the activities of these firms in the local securi ties and investment market, particularly with respect to the use of company funds.
THE GOVERNMENT will effect a tight control on alien retailers in the country starting January next year with the promulgation of guidelines governing the implementation of the Retail Trade Nationalization Law. The guidelines are contained in an administrative order signed by Secretary of Trade Troadio T. Quiazon Jr., and concurred in by Secretary of Finance Cesar E. A. Virata. The order provides that before an alien retailer or manufacturer can be issued internal revenue and municipal licenses, the alien must first present an alien retail clearance certificate (ARCC), or a processor’s certificate of authority (PCA), as the case may be. The certificates are to be issued annually by the Secretary of Trade. Applications for the year 1974 may now be filed with the Department of Trade up to September 30, 1973.
VIRUS particles which may be the cause of cadang-cadang disease have been successfully photographed for the first time in the tissues of diseased coconut palms. This was revealed by Bureau of Plant Industry Director Eliseo C. Carandang, who said that the new finding was a result of a long-term research work by the BPI scientists and experts from the United Nations Development Program’s Coconut Research and Development Project. Photographs made through electron microscopes at magnifications up to 200,000 times showed rod-shaped viruses in the sap and some of the cells of palms affected with cadang-cadang. Significantly, these same viruses could not be found in healthy materials. The virus rods are similar in shape to those found in a disease of pine trees in Europe, the virologist said.
represented by Lee Waring for Sulu-Palawan area of Trans Asia, Philodrill etc. at noontime after I saw heavyweight champion [George] Foreman knock out Joe King Roman in two minutes of the first round.
The Bangkok Post as usual takes sides with [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.], condemning his “torture” and quoting his losing weight from 190 pds to 140 pds as reported by AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines.
“Torture” and “harassment” are false—completely.
And as to his losing weight—if they only knew that he is suffering hideously because his mistress Mrs. ______ Silverio de la Merced, upon giving birth to a baby boy at Makati Medical Center, never recovered consciousness from the anesthesia and may be a vegetable all her life!! And his wife knows this as Intelligence has been compelled to furnish her with copies of the apprehended love letters (all self-explanatory) during her (his wife Cory [Corazon]) interrogation.
“There is no fury like that of a wife scorned.”