1973

March 1, 1973

Chairman Leo [Leonides] Virata, drunk, indolent, bad manager but a good think man. Strategy for over-all economic relations. The Command and General Staff College Civilian Supremacy and the Arrogance of Infallibility. Electronics—Sharps of Japan, Araki Saiki and...

February 28, 1973

Official Gazette for February 28, 1973: THE PRESIDENT released P2.6 million to provide a counterpart fund for an aquaculture research and production project, primarily for shrimps and Center. Southeast Asian governments, including Japan, have allocated some P4 million...

February 27, 1973

Official Gazette for February 27, 1973: THE PRESIDENT received three separate foreign economic missions which are currently conducting surveys on the feasibility of investing in the country. The first group, composed of English and Hongkong businessmen informed the...

February 26, 1973

Official Gazette for February 26, 1973: SECRETARY OF JUSTICE Vicente Abaci Santos ruled that the prospective members of the interim National Assembly (members of the defunct Congress and Constitutional Convention delegates who have opted to serve in, the Assembly) are...

February 25, 1973

Joe [Jose] Campos who now holds 25% of Marcopper is buying about 20 million (twenty) shares from Brooks Cadwallader the original locator of the mine in Marinduque at one U.S. dollar a share, one million dollars down and two million dollars a month for ten months. This...

February 24, 1973

Spent the whole day in Talaga bay where the dredging of sand for the beach and the picking up of the rocks and stones by the 10 ton public works crane goes on. We also tried the next bay which was calmer. Loyd Nelson Hand was with us. He skied and played pelota in the...

February 23, 1973

1:00 PM Feb. 24 On board the 777 Official Gazette for February 23, 1973: THE PRESIDENT directed all heads of departments, bureaus and agencies of the government, including the local governments, to extend the tallest support to the scouting movement and its projects,...

February 21, 1973

Official Gazette for February 21, 1973: MALACAÑANG HAS RELEASED the official text of two Presidential decrees, one providing for the allocation and expenditures of all money accruing to the Highway Special Fund and the other imposing a tax of 15 per cent on interest...

February 20, 1973

Official Gazette for February 20, 1973: THE PRESIDENT laid down three basic policies to prevent forest destruction and to encourage the establishment of wood processing industries. After inducting into office the officials of the Philippine Chamber of Wood Industries...

February 19, 1973

The AP [Associated Press] president Stan Swinton came to see me—a courtesy call and interview. The second biggest story of New York Times (Front page and full page in page 14) is the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Senate that an American killer was hired to...