Brought Sec. Gen. [Mohamad Hassan El] Tohamy on a cruise on board the 777. Heavy meals at 6:00 AM—as I redirected the ship to Panamian Cove at Cavite where the helicopters landed to bring him to Corregidor with Sec. [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.] and Amb. Arsetedjo. They...
1974
August 19, 1974
Monday The weather is much better. Slight rain and the flood in Tarlac up north have reached. Played golf in the mud. Caught the sniffles. And attended to all the interviews. MacArthur of the Los Angeles Times, (he took the place of Jack Fosie), Arthur Zaih of...
August 18, 1974
Sunday At the meeting of the National Disaster Control Council in my study at 12:00 AM [sic] I announced: The proclamation of a stole of national emergency in 14 provinces: Benguet, Pangasinan, Quezon including the sub-province of Aurora, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija,...
August 6, 1974
Wednesday Gen. Yoga Sugomo, head of the Indonesian Intelligence “Bakin,” has arrived. The [Richard] Nixon confession has eroded his congressional support. He may have to resign.
August 17, 1974
Saturday The rains brought about by Typhoon Roning that sucked the Southwest monsoons towards the western part of Luzon, have continued for seven days and threatens to bring about floods as high as the floods of 1972. The central point of Sullipan near Apalit on the...
July 31, 1974
Upi, Cotobato was retaken this morning by the 2nd Inf. Bn. [Infantry Battalion] with special forces teams supported by the 15th PC [Philippine Constabulary] Bn. that came from Ulatanga. Only there WIA [wounded in action] on our side. We have to reveal the intensified...
August 2, 1974
I have scrapped the plan to release Operations Sea Hawk., the subversive activities and the new front in Calbiga, Swnar as these may prejudice the trip of Imelda to Peking. But Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile will brief both the Supreme Court and the Cabinet as well as the...
July 25, 1974
Cotabato has exploded in violence again. The 21st Bn. [Battalion] under Col. Tucay stumbled into an estimated 1,000 Muslim rebels (700 of them with firearms) in Bos. [Barrios] Biniruan and Balibud of Cotabato City (about 2 kilometers from the poblacion). We suffered...
July 29, 1974
Difficult to wrench one’s self away from the languorous beauty and peace of Ulot, Tolosa, Leyte. But after an early morning skiing in a calm sea left on the new BAC 1-11 for Manila. Arrived 12:40 to the problems: Mindanao—MGen. [Fidel] Ramos reported that his PC...
February 9, 1974
On January 22, I have had the unhappy privilege of seeing my predictions come true over the Paracel and Spratly Island groups. I had briefed Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of the possibility that the Red Chinese would fight over the Paracel as well as the Spratlys...