What worries me most now is [are] the prices and the apparent scarcity of essentials. We set aside $2 million monthly for essentials beginning January, and this was at the old rate. And yet there seems to be scarcity. I have asked Sec. Leo[nides] Virata to get...

Official Gazette for March 7, 1970: President Marcos devoted his time, as is usual for him on weekends, to his desk work during which he received no callers except for government officials and close aides whom he expressly called for consultation. About noon, he broke...

Official Gazette for March 6, 1970: President Marcos spent most of the day working on state papers during which he freely consulted with his financial and economic advisers. In the morning, the President had a long conference with Vice-President Fernando Lopez,...

Gen. [Romeo] Espino has come to show me a report that 25 Kabataang Makabayan leaders including Nilo Tayag, Crispin Aranda and Navarro met at No. 28 Libis Nadurata, Caloocan City, behind the Iglesia Ni Cristo, to plan the kidnapping of Bongbong anytime from March 15th...

The city is paralyzed because of the jeepney drivers strike. They claim that there is need for an increase in rates. So do the buses which are still plying their routes although they also claim 200 of their buses have been damaged (glass windows) by the stone-throwing...

The People’s March was a flop. Only about 5,000 at the most joined. The march was supposed to get the support of the people in the streets and houses but it did not. Only a few of the spectators joined. It has ended in some Molotov cocktails thrown at the U.S....

I am quoted by the afternoon papers (Mirror and Evening News) as having charged the Jesuits of the Philippines of having incited revolution. I have said no such thing and have issued a denial. In the pause after the golf game last Saturday I merely said to Greg...

Tuesday may be the crucial day. The KM’s [Kabataang Makabayan] yesterday agreed to hold a demonstration marching from the Quezon [City] Welcome Arch to the U.S. Embassy passing by the Supreme Court. The demonstration bids well to be violent. Intelligence reports...

[p.98] Am working on a Primer on Communism. Everyone is talking of confrontations with student power. Actually the whole crisis has been utilized by communism to create a revolutionary situation. Ernesto Granada, columnist of the Manila Chronicle, has become libelous....

[p.97] The Manila Police early this morning (two hours after the rioting) raided the Philippine College of Commerce with a search warrant from Judge [Hilarion] Jarencio and arrested 38 persons including students, professors and paid vandals with Molotov cocktails,...