I am rather busy these days. Here are some of my preoccupations:
Time Magazine’s “The Little Wars of Asia” with “Philippine Guerilla” Abdul Kahyr Alonto as cover. The article is not too one sided but it requires action by the Armed Forces. I attach the magazine.
Ex Pres. [Diosdado] Macapagal’s call to an Interim National Assembly. I believe nothing will come out of it but I have to attend to the Concon [Constitutional Convention] delegates and members of Congress.
The last Third Ministers Conference of the Group of 77 (actually 110 states now) that ended Feb. 7th.
The coming ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] summit conference set for Feb. 23-25, 1976 preceded by the Ministers Conference in Pattaya Feb. 9th-10th. The Indonesians and Malaysians are becoming difficult.
The visit of Sec. Gen. Kurt Waldheim of the United Nations. He arrived this afternoon as our guest at the Maharlika Guest House. He is interested in getting a meeting of the Indonesians, the Fretilin [Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor)], the Dili Eastern Timor government and the Portuguese to meet in a UN [United Nations] sponsored conference in Geneva to prepare for a referendum.
Abul Khayr Alonto was implicated as one of the leaders of the Marawi pocket rebellion in October 1972 but at the request and guarranty [sic] of then Gov. Princes Tarhata Alonto Lucman, her brother Ex. Sen. Domocao Alonto and Ex. Gov. Madki Alonto, the father of Abul Khayr.
Official Gazette for February 11, 1976: THE PRESIDENT formally approved the contract for the supply of and services for the country’s first nuclear power plant which will be set up in Bataan. In approving the contract, the President reiterated the government’s determination to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil-powered generators by exploiting its hydroelectric and geothermal energy sources, and by setting up nuclear power plants. The letter agreement was signed at Malacañang by National Power Corporation General Manager Conrado D. del Rosario and Gordon Hurlbert, president of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, in the presence of the President and United States Ambassador William H. Sullivan.
THE PRESIDENT warned against complacency and relaxation in an effort to improve the life of the poor and illiterate. Addressing about 30 outstanding coeds from various schools and colleges in Metropolitan Manila, who called at Malacañang, the President said the people must not relax in the face of an enemy which is more dangerous than the enemy the country faced during the war years. Commending the coeds for their active role in alleviating the plight of the poor and the illiterate, the President said that he had issued Proclamation No. 1529 proclaiming February 7 to February 14 as Love Bank Week in recognition of their role in bringing about the change and transformation of society.
He broke his pledge and treacherously attacked our soldiers after reorganizing the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] in Lanao with the help of his aunt, the governor, his father and his uncle Ex Sen. Alonto whom I trusted after his personal assurances but who, when allowed to go to Saudi Arabia to attend a Muslim religious conference has consistently attached the Republic. He is a traitor.
Ex Pres. Macapagal [sic] actions suspiciously coincide with the Communist Party of the Philippines plans to start violent demonstrations (like the demonstration to celebrate the Jan. 26 Mendiola Incident) and after his arrival from the United States. We have captured a letter of CPP leader Jose Maria Sison under the code name “Cely” urging the communist Concon delegates to support Macapagal.