Parity rights end in 1974. Public agricultural lands sold to Americans must escheat in that year. Sales of private agricultural land are void. So decided the Supreme Court Chief Justice J. B. L. Reyes yesterday. The government won its case in the case filed by William ______.
Quezon City has no water supply because of the bombing of the new 60 inch main pipe of the NAWASA [National Water and Sewerage Authority].
And the Metrocom [Metropolitan Command] car that was ambushed in the Marikina Heights firefight early yesterday morning had a smashed front and rear glass and bullet holes in the body.
And there is growing apprehension in the Greater Manila area.
I enclose the metropolitan papers in Envelope No. XXXIV-H.
The Liberals led by [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] are crying out for a share of publicity in the Relief and Rehabilitation by pettily demanding an accounting of the relief goods distribution. I have called this petty and appealed for more maturity in the face of crisis.
Today I directed the Disaster Control Committee headed by Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile and Executive Secretary to render an account of the relief goods distribution.
And the Senators are back to the good old political game of bickering. They have passed the Calamity bill but there are no funds for it as they have not passed the new tax laws.
Yesterday 79 officers and men of the PGB [Presidential Guard Battalion] and PSU [Presidential Security Unit] graduated from the Jungle Warfare and Mountain Operations (a 45 day course in the Second Brigade area at Tanay, Rizal). One of my close-in-security a narrow shouldered thin sergeant ______ topped the class.
I am glad that the PGB and PSU are improving on their capabilities. I wrote a congratulatory message on them from the golf course.
Worked on the updating of the contingency plans on the basis of the new assumptions—marking out the possible targets of sabotage and kidnapping or assassination of the NPA’s [New People’s Army].
Official Gazette for August 20, 1972: THE PRESIDENT worked at his desk, even as he kept in touch from time to time with his assistants in the Malacañang-in-the-Field office to check on the progress of the rehabilitation work in the flood-stricken areas of Northern and Central Luzon.
And counteraction immediate and long run.
Met Danny [Daniel] and Ising [Maria Luisa] Madrigal Vasquez who are trying to get a proper accounting and partition of the Madrigal properties valued variously at one billion to two billion pesos. The brothers and sisters are publicly quarreling about their shares.
The two brothers, Tony [Antonio] and Belek (Jose) who were given management of the Madrigal properties, apparently took advantage of the situation and invested some of the cash in their own names thus leaving only a part to the estate.
Now Danny and Ising threaten to inform on them for tax evasion.
I called the attention of our children to this sad spectacle and never to follow their example. “Otherwise I will rise from the grave and haunt them.”