Typhoon Narsing with 130 kms. per hour near the center threatens Manila. By 2:00 AM it will be 30 kms. east of Manila.
Bobby Fischer, the nemesis of [Boris] Spassky and chess world champion is here. He stays at the Hyatt and will open with me the International Chess Tournament tomorrow.
We have to increase the prices of oil products but this will push up wages and prices. We have to be cautious.
The Thai fighting which resulted in the resignation of Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn is principally aimed at the corruption in government, a demand for a new constitution and elections. Rice shortages because of exports also caused it.
Kittikachorn is suspected of having covered up his son Col. Narong Kitthikachorn, who has been abusive and corrupt. He and the Minister of Commerce were quarreling on whether to export rice or not or who gets the cut.
So I am glad we have overcome our rice crisis, have moved to cut out corruption and will continue to clean up, and we have a new constitution. And we have had free elections January and July, the plebiscite and the referendum.
But I will now organize the Tanudbayan and the Sandiganbayan.
And reorganize the government—Commerce, Public Works, DBP [Development Bank of the Philippines], Customs and Internal Revenue.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.