Left by car 6:15 AM for Canlubang and arrived after 50 minutes. Played golf up to 9:20 AM. Hit two over par 38. Putting well. Sunk almost every green in one. Inaugurated the Filsyn or Filipinas Synthetics which is in Sta. Rosa and Cabuyao in the very middle of the...
1972
February 10, 1972
Worked on the legislative program and the request of Congressmen up to 4:00 PM. Then met the Auditor General and the Sec. of National Defense, Chief of Staff, heads of the major services, comptrollers, auditors and staff because of the leaks of intelligence fund...
February 9, 1972
Set aside 500 hectares of the San Ramon Penal Colony in Zamboanga del Sur for the FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization]-UNDP [United Nations Development Programme] $900 million project for the researches on coconut. The briefing indicates the cross-breeding in the...
February 8, 1972
The parliamentary system again won in the Executive Power Committee without the Marcos-ban provisions by a vote of 20 to 14, one absent ([Augusto] Saguin) and four abstentions. But the haters of Marcos will try to insert it tomorrow in the form of an amendment. The...
February 7, 1972
Fire is still raging at the Manila Cartimar Market, Nepa Q. Mart Q.C. [Quezon City], I attach Herald’s Jose de la Cruz note about it. The delegates in favor of the parliamentary form of government in the Executive Power Committee have banded and a report to be...
February 6, 1972
Gen. Hans Menzi has just agreed for Liwayway Publications control to be actually clarified in writing. Tomorrow, Emilio Yap and he come for merienda to finalize the agreement. His orange plantation in Mati is supplying oranges the whole year round, his African palm...
February 5, 1972
I attach a letter from a certain Laureano Abaya of La Union who gives a different version of father’s death. He claims that he was executed by the guerrillas in an eastern barrio of Bacnotan, La Union. But he is unbelievable as we have checked some of the details. His...
February 4, 1972
I attach the reports of Dr. Guimo de Vega on the Con Con [Constitutional Convention]. The Executive Power Committee ended up in fisticuffs between Delegates [Sergio] Tocao and Jose Mari Velez. Have been busy on the Con Con, Legislative program as well as drug...
February 3, 1972
Have finished the outline on The Asian Dilemma, The Philippine Paradox. But problems on the Japanese loans (Project Loans $25 Million and $40 Million commodity loans) have supervened. The Philippine negotiators, as usual, are timid and act like beggars. I have...
February 2, 1972
Ordered the continuation of the investigations on the MIA [Manila International Airport] burning. One confession has been obtained of arson. Met Rep. Lester Wolffe of New York and a tourist promoter on Philippine tourism. Then the offer of Northrop to rebuild the MIA,...