Bataan Day
I deliberately cut my Bataan Day Dambana ng Kagitingan to the simplest and starkest statements. I attach the speech. The corrected transcript is not what I delivered. Most of the Insert I I did not deliver. Too prolix for such an audience. But good and informative for print.
The hijacked PAL [Philippine Air Lines] Bac-III’s still in Bangkok with a damaged hydraulic system and tire. They have been offered a commercial airline trip to Cairo which they have initially refused.
I have, by telephone, authorized Ambassador Manuel Yan in Bangkok to offer a conditional pardon inasmuch as the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] spokesman a certain Abdel Baki Abubakr Sec. Gen. for foreign relations in Cairo has disowned them saying the Phil. Authorities were “plotting this act to discredit the Muslim struggle for autonomy in the Southern Philippines.”
Typhoon Konsing, a freak summer typhoon is as of 1900 hours 300 nautical miles east of Borongan Samar with maximum winds of 90 knots moving NNW at 10 knots.
The Presidential Pilot recommends cancellation of their trip (F/L [First Lady] and guests) to Tacloban.
MALACAÑANG