Arrived by 11:00 PM. Swells only outside of Manila Bay. Comparatively calm inside.
Caught plenty of fish off Umbones where we had set the nets at about 2:00 PM while we returned to Janilo Cove to ski as the water was rough at Talaga where we had gone Saturday evening to sleep. Not much fish on the north side of Cochinas Pt. (actually Mariveles). Only one big lapu-lapu, lobster, crabs, sea cockroach, etc.
Last Saturday we caught plenty of fish (mostly parrot fish) off Janjlo.
Finally can take off on one ski—but very tiring. I am trying to jump up to ease on the arms as I do on two skis.
Monching [Ramon] del Rosario reports Arabs are enthusiastic about our position in the Middle East and now would like to give us 100 million barrels of crude at current prices immediately.
Official Gazette for November 25, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has issued Presidential Decree No. 842 creating and establishing the Philippine Center for Advanced Studies (PCAS) at the University of the Philippines. PD No. 342 lists PCAS objectives as follows: 1) Bring together specialists from various disciplines to con duct systematic research at fundamental levels; 2) Assist the central government in the formulation of policies and programs; 3) Address itself to the examination of issues of central concern to the government such as problems of national integration, social, technological and cultural change, social effects of national policy, international developments and their impact on national life, as well as security and strategic problems, and 4) Establish degree programs and participate in “existing instructional programs in order to produce Filipino experts or specialists for the nation. The PCAS shall be an autonomous unit of the UP system, with a seven-men board of trustees which formulates and reviews the objectives and policies as well as nominates the PCAS officers and staff.
THE PRESIDENT formalized the creation of the provinces of North Cotabato, Maguindanao, and Sultan Kudarat out of the province of Cotabato through the issuance of Presidential Decree No. 341. Two related decrees were issued at the same time, PD No. 341 which creates the municipality of Datu Paglas in the province of Maguindanao and PD No. 339 which creates the municipalities of President Quirino, Mariano Marcos, and Esperanza in the province of Sultan Kudarat.
NATIONAL Cottage Industries Development Enterprise have jointly started stockpiling critically needed raw materials for cottage industries. Trade Undersecretary and NACIDA Administrators Mario R. Reyes said that the move was taken to assure the continued and steady flow of raw materials to the nation’s cottage industries in the face of an acute shortage of imported raw materials. Undersecretary Reyes also said that the measures would enable the cottage industry producers to meet the volume and quality requirements of the export market and save them trouble from non-fulfillment of delivery quotas.
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