Inspected Laguna de Bay where about 5 million bangus have died in the fish pens (specially in Cardova) from lack of oxygen in the water caused by a number of factors: overstocking of fish in the fish pens, crowded fish pens, leaving no passageway for transport on...
1975
July 12, 1975
The Paris Match magazine carries another attack glamourizing the Moro National Liberation Front. I attach the magazine. Official Gazette for July 12, 1975: THE PRESIDENT is considering the establishment of a special fund for the preservation of the ecological balance...
July 11, 1975
Went to Sierra Lakes (Caliraya) yesterday for a day of skiing. Slashed my right thigh with the tow rope grip while turning left. The Dutch and Australian champions demonstrated the jump, tricking and slalom. Amazing skiing on one foot (barefoot) and turning. The...
July 7, 1975
The appearance of Imelda at Mexico City on the International Women’s Year Conference was a hit. Of course Newsweek of even date had some flattering remarks to make. I attach the magazine. No Official Gazette entry for this day.
July 6, 1975
What is strange is if this was blackmail why an alleged open deposit in a bank—and not in cash? No Official Gazette entry for this day. The first two pages of this entry are missing.
June 27, 1975
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...
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”...