I attach the progress report of Dr. Robert Fox on the Cagayan Valley diggings “Ancient man and Pleistocene Fauna in Cagayan Valley, Northern Luzon, Philippines: A Progress Report.”
This is submitted by Acting Director Godofredo L. Alcacid of the National Museum in support of the request of P40,000 for the Cagayan Valley project.
I have approved it.
Imelda and I met Dr. Jose [actually Felipe] Jocano and Jesus Peralta after the meeting with the labor leaders on their invitation to be guest speaker at the Congress of Workers on May 1st, and on the projected PALSA [Philippine Air Lines Supervisors’ Association] strike, and after the award of the decoration of the The Ancient Order of Sikatuna with the rank of Datu to the Ambassador of Italy, Dr. Dante Matacotta.
We agreed to have the Marcos Foundation support the diggings and the archeological missions. The discoveries prove the existence of man with a civilization long before the western world could boast of any culture.
So Dr. Jocano and Peralta are to prepare a project study on the upgrading of the facilities of the government for archeological missions and present a specific project study on the Cagayan Valley for the approval and financial support by the Marcos Foundation.
We have received another offer for the manufacturer of automobile parts including engine blocks from Nissan of Japan.
I am encouraging the entry of those investors offering the best terms.
With respect to Nissan, they offer to bring their equipment for the factory without cost of foreign exchange on our part. This is the best offer so far. It is made through Anthony Lee who is the head of Universal Motors that now assembles Mercedes-Benz.
We talked to the girls and Kokoy ([Benjamin] Romualdez) who are now in London at about 4:00 PM when it was about 9:00 AM in London. They were preparing to leave by car for the girls’ schools.
They have gotten two cars and two houses, one in London and another smaller one in Mayfield where they (the three children) can meet on weekends and holidays.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.
Apparently they are happy in England and will accommodate well to their new surroundings.
Imelda and I told Imee of the exciting Cagayan diggings and suggested that she (Imee) take up archeology and write the story of man in the Philippines from prehistoric times. She may take up archeology after this.
Imelda writes the art history of the Philippines, Imee its story before recorded time and I write the history of the Philippines in general. What an exciting retirement project.
I also attach the cabled report on the consultative group meeting in Paris wherein the Philippine representatives say that “there were good prospects for a package of international financing in the power sector amounting to dollars 120 million—to meet the Foreign Exchange requirements of power generation, transmission and rural electrification projects. Similar possibilities for and coordination exist in the transport sector.”