It has been predicted that by the end of this century affluence will transfer to the Pacific countries.
But the Philippines and Indonesia are supposed to become producers of consumer goods
Official Gazette for September 20, 1973: THE PRESIDENT promulgated Presidential Decree No. 299, making the barrio captain and the barangay chairman persons in authority, and the barrio councilmen, barrio policemen and barangay leader and any person who come to the aid of persons in authority as an agent of a person in authority. The decree amends Article 152 of Act 3815 (Revised Penal Code) which defines those who are persons m authority and agents of a person in authority.
THE PRESIDENT expressed the hope that mankind shall at last attain its dream of brotherhood and lasting peace with the establishment of economic and cultural relations among countries of varied political ideologies In brief remarks at a dinner given at Malacañang in honor of members of a combined Russian trade and oil exploration mission, the President observed that while men claim to be dominant and supreme in the animal kingdom, they are still slaves to age-old enemies: disease, impoverishment and war. He said that the mission is visiting at a time when the Philippines is seeking to re-structure its own society and eradicate the causes that had kept this nation from moving forward toward progress and modernization.
THE PRESIDENT has promulgated two general orders to give full protection to tourists and transients. Issued by the President were: 1) General Order No. 38 authorizing the arrest and detention of per sons involved in crimes punishable under the Revised Penal Code and other special laws where the offended party is in the Philippines as a tourist or a transient. 2) General Order No. 39 giving military tribunals concurrent jurisdiction with the civil court over crimes committed against tourist and transients. General Order No. 39 amends General Order No. 12 dated September 30, 1972, vesting the military tribunals with exclusive jurisdiction to try and decide certain criminal cases to the exclusion of the civil court.
PHILIPPINE Atomic Energy Commission announced that licenses are required to manufacture, use, import or export radioactive materials. The PAEC made the announcement in view of the increasing use of nuclear energy in the country. To obtain a license, applicants are required to pay a filing fee of P5 for each initial, or renewal of application. A license fee shall be collected annually from each licensee based on the following schedule: 1) Less than one curie, P10; 2) One curie to less than 100 curies, P50: 3) 100 curies to less than 500 curies, P100; 4) 500 curies or more, P500.
THE PRESIDENT warned squatters occupying banks of rivers, creeks, esteros, drainage channels and similar outlets to move out or face the legal consequences. The structures constructed by squatters on these portions of the public domain have obstructed the continuous flow of the waterways causing recurrent floods, the President said. In issuing Presidential Decree No. 296, the Chief Executive prescribed the following penalties for its violation; a fine of not less than P5, 000 nor more than P10.000 or imprisonment of not less than two years nor more than 10 years or both such fine and imprisonment. Within 90 days from the promulgation of PD 296; on September 18, 1973, the squatters are obliged to demolish such illegal constructions at their expense.
TOTAL of P4.9 billion taxes has been collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue since the imposition of Martial Law. The amount represented a 46 per cent increase over the same 12-month period before Proclamation No. 1081. The announcement came on the heels of “Operations Non-Filer” pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 213 giving tax amnesty to persons who had failed to file their income tax returns.
THE PHILIPPINES export earnings from fresh bananas during the first eight months of this year have already overshot the P100-million mark. In a report submitted to Agriculture Secretary Arturo Tanco Jr., Plant Industry Director Eliseo C. Carandang said that the country exported last month 34, 244,041 kilos of fresh bananas to Japan worth P14, 884, 404 which brought to 235,919,751 kilos worth P102,089, 550 the country’s total exports of the tropical fruit for this year. The eight-month record also exceeded by P26, 451, 131 the total earnings for the same period last year which amounted only to P75, 638, 419.
with Japanese machinery for Japan.
Amb. William Sullivan, apparently echoing the [Henry] Kissinger ideas explained that American policy is for all the major powers to balance each other in Asia thus assuring a peace which would assure a period of development for all Asian countries including the Philippines. The question is how long will such a peace last.
Kissinger himself speaks of Russia facing the problem within the next 18 months of whether it should wage a “surgical” war against Red China to destroy its nuclear missile capability based near their common border, or just sit it out and wager its security on its technological advances.
Japan faces many problems of trade, energy and oil supply (it has a tanker from the Middle East moving to Japan every 50 miles) pollution, space, military dependence etc.
If it should become desperate, it could encourage the tensions between the USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] and Red China to explode into a war leaving them both decimated and adroitly bring about the withdrawal of the U.S. from Asia leaving Japan alone to lord it over Asia.
Whatever the future holds for us we must strengthen ourselves, diversify our products and markets, train our young men to defend our country and prepare to be an asset or ally and not a liability.
Economic strength must be our foundation.
The other possibility is that Red China will ultimately control through Chinese nationals both Malaysia and Singapore after Thailand. And Nationalist China will enter into a negotiated arrangement with it.
So Indonesia is a natural ally and Japan should be strengthened. And the U.S. kept in the Philippines! No matter how we may dislike this.