[p.69] Poor Banjo Raval (Gen. Vicente Raval) the Chief of PC [Philippine Constabulary]. He is one of the most loyal of the officers in the Armed Forces. I have asked him to seek relief as PC Chief. Instead of Gen. Eduardo Garcia, I may have to put Gen. [Felizardo]...
1970
February 5, 1970
[p.68] Called Ambassador [Henry] Byroade to find out if they (the Americans) are supporting me in the fight against the subversives. He said they would. Whatever they have done to encourage intransigence among the Liberals, we should neutralize them before a total...
February 4. 1970
[p.66] Played golf with the Malacañang reporters at 5:00 PM. Everything has returned to normalcy. But I feel the HMB’s [Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan] with Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] and Ninoy [Benigno Aquino Jr.] masterminding them are planning some sabotage. Talked to...
February 3, 1970
[p.65] The threat to turn the funerals of the four dead students into a mass rally has failed so far as the parents of the victims refused to allow the dead bodies to be further utilized to inflame the youth. There is comparative quiet although there was a scare of...
February 2, 1970
[p.64] It seems clear now that the demonstrations and riots are engineered by the Liberal Party, Commander Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] and the Lopezes. The affidavit of a student leader (Villalon) attests to seven meetings in the office of my opponent [Sergio] Osmeña...
February 1, 1970
[p.63] Have suspended classes in the Greater Manila Area for one week. No Official Gazette entry for this day. Not part of the diary, a holograph letter to the Marcos children dated 1 February 1970 reads: To my children, Imee, Bongbong, and Irene: Why I am fighting...
January 31, 1970
[p.61] I write this tonight having been a little occupied last night during the demonstration or riot. I am glad I was able to hold back on the repeated requests to fire at the rioters, the first request when they took over a fire truck, burned it and rammed it...
January 30, 1970
[p.60] Still very quiet. The Kabataang Makabayan has been able to muster only about a hundred demonstrators before Malacañang. To cover up their inadequate number, they have gone to Congress where the NUSP under [Edgar] Jopson and the NSL have a more impressive...
January 29, 1970
[p.58] The UP faculty had a demonstration this afternoon. They walked from the Agrifina Circle to Malacañang, handed me a manifesto blaming the administration for the “pattern of repression.” No mention at all about who started the stoning nor the danger to the First...
January 28, 1970
[p.55] The pattern of subversion is slowly emerging. The danger is now apparent to me but not to most people. The conspiracy to grab power and assassinate me and about a hundred officers. The terrorism in Central Luzon with the HMB’s [Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan] and...