12:00 PM July 1st, 1973 July 1, 1973 Official Gazette for June 30, 1973: THE PRESIDENT initiated a government policy to harness household savings for capital formation in line with the country’s development efforts, and created a National Commission on Savings for...
1973
June 29, 1973
Official Gazette for June 29, 1973: THE PRESIDENT ordered that appropriate “severe measures” be taken against all rural banks found to be imperilling the success of Masagana 99. The Chief Executive gave the directive to Agriculture Secretary Arturo Tanco on receiving...
June 28, 1973
I have sneaked out of the party to work on the papers pending on my table and write my diary. The party is lively. And the group of Cristina is charming. But I do not enjoy these parties anymore. I would rather read and write. Specially since I am tired from the...
June 27, 1973
2:00 AM June 28th Breakfast for the group of Dr. Gustav Ranis on the Comprehensive Survey on Employment and Economic Development. Conference on the Referendum. Arrival of the astronauts of Apollo 17 and Christina Ford II, Gea Pallevecini, Luciana Pinatelli Anedon,...
June 26, 1973
5:30 PM while waiting to go to the park for the 25th wedding anniversary of Cong. Simeon Valdez Investments from Australia on garments (trousers from local synthetics) [Gaty Pty. Ltd.?]. The oil and energy crisis with Com. [Ismael?] Mathay. Integration of policy...
June 25, 1973
The Ambassador of Iraq to Indonesia paid a courtesy call on me. And I asked him to visit Mindanao and to request his government to sell us crude oil for Filoil. We received the International Rotary Paul Harris Award for our efforts at peace and world understanding. A...
June 23, 1973
12:00 PM June 24, 1973 Saturday and Sunday Helicoptered to Tagaytay. Visited Camp General Mariano Castañada then inaugurated the Development Academy of the Philippines where I also swore in the Cavite Electric Cooperative. I attach the speech at the DAP [Development...
June 22, 1973
Spoke to the young Muslims and cultural minorities on the 16th anniversary of the Commission on National Integration. I called the Muslims to the south as the old world and the settlements of Luzon and the Visayas which was Christianized as the New World. And like the...
June 21, 1973
Official Gazette for June 21, 1973: THE PRESIDENT assured that there is no real emergency in the country s peace and order condition to warrant the mobilization of military reservists for combat duty. The Chief Executive made this assessment to dispel doubts that...
June 20, 1973
Official Gazette for June 20, 1973: THE PRESIDENT called on the country’s boy and girl scouts to help in the “salvaging operation” of some five million out-of-school youths. The President said these two youth organizations can accomplish much in improving the lots of...