We are still in a state of rapture from the congratulations that I have received from abroad and in the Philippines for the TV Meet the Press show of [Lawrence] Spivak. An example of which is the which is the wire of Sec. [Carlos] Romulo which I attach. Earl Mazo said...
1972
ctober 8, 1972
3:30 AM Oct. 9th We are still in Euphoria because of [Lawrence] Spivak. Meet the Press show by Satellite in Washington and thru KBS [Kanlaon Broadcasting System] in my study in Malacañan. Are you peacefully going to transfer authority in 1973? How long will martial...
October 7, 1972
1:00 AM, Oct. 8th Have been busy finishing the Reform Program. We have to revise the targets and the plans. And the NBC people with Liz Tretta, the Singapore-based NBC correspondent and panelist in the [Lawrence] Spivak Meet the Press show tomorrow night, have been...
October 6, 1972
Worked on the outline of the whole program of reform: Peace and Order Criminality Guns Gangster Private Armies Judiciary Investment, Production, Prices Incentives Taxes Service Contract Land Reform Cooperatives Financial support Government Reorganization Graft and...
October 5, 1972
Devoted time to Cotabato (Blah and Esther Sinsuat and Datu Puti their son). Dr. Charles Mosebrooke, the advance party of Larry [Lawrence] Spivak for the Meet the Press show, Com. [Baltazar] Aquino of the Com. on Highways on the highways program and the new decrees....
October 4, 1972
Met the priests who have been released Father [Cornelio] Lagerway, [Constante] Floresca and [Santos] Rabang. We agreed we were working for the same objectives but that they should now help us by being the liaison with the Philippine Priests Asso. for the last two and...
October 3, 1972
The threat from the clergy specially the Jesuits is not as bad as it first seemed. But I have ordered the release of all the clergy who have been detained to allow a review of their cases. In Greater Manila Fathers [Cornelio] Lagerway, [Constante] Floresca and...
October 2, 1972
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 [an]...
October 1, 1972
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 30, 1972
Tillman Durdin of New York Times has now reported favorably on the developments in Manila contrary to his initial reports. I attach cabled report on his story and other stories. Since the New York Times is the bell weather of American newspaper sentiment, this should...