Monday Christmas Day Late lunch—2:30 PM after working out the campaign of information on the new threats from the subversives and the rightists—with Secs. [Juan] Ponce Enrile and [Vicente] Abad Santos—and Tibo [Primitivo] Mijares. I also called Gen. Tomas Diaz and...
1972
December 9, 1972
Saturday Dr. Bob Chase of Stanford University Hospital arrived at about 5:30 AM and came to see Imelda at 10:00 AM. He gave her a clean bill of expectations. She passed the neurology test with flying colors. Her nerves and tendons are working. Pres. [Richard] Nixon’s...
October 20, 1972
Friday Imelda started playing badminton today at 5:30 PM while we were playing golf. With her at the tennis court which we walled with lawanit and canvas to serve as windbreak were [Lourdes] Lulu Tinio, [Imelda] Meldy Cojuangco and Helen Cu-Unjieng. She played for...
October 2, 1972
Monday We are now watching the development of opposition among the clergy, possibly the nuns, the Free Farmers Federation and the Christian Socialist Movement. So the opening of the schools in the high school and college levels have to be postponed. For there would be...
October 1, 1972
Sunday Guns, Gangsters and the Reduction of the Meralco [Manila Electric Company] rates—these are the news that have gone big in the United States. 17,000 guns captured and surrendered is a massive number indeed which that is preoccupied with terrorism. So too with...
September 16, 1972
As I expected the Liberals and the Manila Times have started to make much of OPlan Saggitarius [sic]. So I have openly appealed to the Liberals not to connive with the communists, revealing that Jose Maria Sison and other communists have met with Liberals for a common...
September 19, 1972
Tuesday Released the report of Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile of Sept. 8, 1972 wherein he reported that Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] had met with Jose Maria Sison of the Communist Party and had talked about a link-up of the Liberal Party and the Communist Party. I attach...
September 8, 1972
Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] is, of course, playing a double game. He was in danger from the Maoists, as reported by him to Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile when he (Aquino) interviewed Flewelyn [sic] [Fluellen] Ortigas in the stockade. He had been told by Ortigas that he,...
September 2, 1972
Have a TV-Radio interview at 4:00 PM on 1. The Relief and Rehabilitation work 2. The Progressive Car Manufacturing Program 3. Sen. Daniel Inouye (I mistakenly referred to him as from Japan but I later corrected myself 4. The exchange of military information with...
August 18, 1972
Saturday Imee arrived at 6:45 AM. I could not meet her as I was in bed trying to sleep off the librium I took last night when I could not sleep up to 2:00 AM. Al Lim on the report of 6 NPA’s [New People’s Army] armed with Armalites sighted in Pantian at the boundary...