Foreign magazines are trying to romanticize the Moro National Liberation Front, to the Phil. Gents prejudice. I attach the latest copy of the Far Eastern Economic Review which publishes an alleged interview with Abul Khayr Alonto, former Vice Mayor of Marawi City, son...
1975
May 28, 1975
The force of nationalism has always been underestimated by the great powers. This they did again in Indo China—specially the United States. Americans are still asking the question as “to why our (American) Vietnamese did not fight as well as the Vietnamese of the...
May 27, 1975
I attach the written report of MGen. [Fabian] Ver of an offer of a laser-beam weapon of 20 km. range by Okinawan Sentoko Tamaki. I have ordered the mater to be seriously considered. Tuam Askar Hasbelah was brought by a known smuggler of [Diosdado] Macapagal days Hadja...
May 26, 1975
I met Admiral N. [Noel] Gayler, CINCPAC [Commander in Chief, Pacific Command], today in a breakfast conference. Before the breakfast I called him into my study with Ambassador [William] Sullivan and Sec. [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.]. While Admiral Gayler outlined the...
May 13, 1975
It is apparent that the [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] partisans have succeeded in foisting him as a symbol that the Americans and other alien westerners have come to accept—so much so the DPI [Department of Public Information] information attaches report an “Aquino watch”...
April 28, 1975
It is unknown where this text comes from because this entry is missing. Official Gazette for April 28, 1975: THE PRESIDENT sought to redefine and draw a new Filipino elite from the country’s “rich mosaic of groups” who are united in their ability to perceive national...
March 9, 1975
I have just seen the Trial of the Tiger of Malaya (Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita) who surrendered to my unit the 14th Infantry Regiment, USA at Kiangan, Mt. Province in August 1945—as shown in Channel 7. It is a dramatization that overplays the injustice allegedly committed...
February 26, 1975
Commander Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] has offered to surrender. He has met Tony [Antonio] Raquiza in a motel in Manila with two other commanders. The offer affects the entire NPA [New People’s Army] throughout the Philippines except Jose Maria Sison whom Dante says is a...
February 11, 1975
Office of the President of the Philippines Manila February 11, 1975 Adrian [Cristobal], Use this as the theme for the Heart Center speech— F. E. Marcos [Signed] This is a letter from FM addressed to his speechwriter Adrian Cristobal. MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA I am...
February 5, 1975
Can we create a new form of government—a new political concept—that guarrantees [sic] effective leadership or authority that can adequately meet a crisis of any kind but at the same time is not or cannot turn tyrannical or oppressive but must be benevolent because it...