10:00 AM I start to write a second book on my birthday. The momentum pushes me forward. And just like the first this is a book that begs, nay, demands to be written. It is the book of the third world, mostly Asia, Africa and Latin-America about which Western writers...
1971
September 12, 1971
Sunday As usual the columns of Max [Maximo] Soliven and [Mariano] Querol in Manila Times are raving mad about my book and statements. And Sen. [Jose] Diokno heads a supposed massive rally of Concerned Citizens tomorrow at Plaza Miranda. Sen. [Gerardo] Roxas asks me...
September 5, 1971
Sunday I have just met with the Sol Gen. ([Felix] Antonio) Gen. [Manuel] Yan, [Romeo] Espino, [Rafael] Ileto, [Fidel] Ramos, [Fabian] Ver and Col’s. [Ignacio] Paz, [Prospero] Olivas and Uy on the order of the Supreme Court to submit the report of the AFP [Armed Forces...
August 23, 1971 Sunday
There are repeated suggestions that I now impose martial law. For as of now no progress seems to have been made on the investigation of the LP [Liberal Party] rally bombing Sens. Sergio Osmeña [Jr.] and Jovito Salonga are still fighting for their lives. It seems that...
August 29, 1971
Sunday The Herald and the Bulletin today headline my declared intention to dismantle the Communist apparatus in the Philippines. The declaration was contained in the speech. I delivered before the Lion’s International District 301-C yesterday morning. I attach the...
August 13, 1971
Friday We have postponed the proclamations in Laoag and Tuguegarao because of a typhoon that is hitting Northern Luzon. And we may not be able to go back to Manila tomorrow as the weather is deteriorating fast. The intermediaries to Mayor Bangon Akatur of Buldon...
July 24, 1971
Saturday Visited Ilocos Sur and La Union today. The first on the Green Revolution of Imelda, the second at 6:30 PM on the projects in the barrios. Tree planting and meeting with the people of Sto. Domingo and greeting the people of the other towns from the car....
July 26, 1971
Monday Manila is in need of a better government. Garbage strewn all over the streets, bad sewage and drainage, corruption and hypocrisy, police inefficiency and dishonesty—these among others makes the city stink. We must now see what we can do to file charges against...
July 19, 1971
Monday I reiterated today to two interviewers, Mrs. ______ of Bangkok and Paul Miller, son Rand and John Nance that rather than the U.S. employing ground troops in the Philippines in the event of massive subversion (Vietnam-type) under the Mutual Defense Treaty, the...
July 10, 1971
Saturday National Security Council (with Congs. Ramon Mitra, Jr., House Minority Floor Leader and Carmelo Barbero, senior opposition member of the House Committees of Foreign Affairs and National Defense) met on the Spratley Islands case at 11: AM at the fort...