Office of the President of the Philippines Manila No matter what anyone says, what we have done—to announce our desire to take over the bases has antagonized the Americans. Cong. [Donald] Fraser’s statements on the alleged absence of civil rights as well as that there...
1976
December 30, 1976
Rizal Day celebration. More and more I find it difficult to admire [Jose] Rizal the intellectual who compromised and whined and begged to be the hero I can worship. Specially since he was chosen and built up by an American, Gov. Gen. Howard Taft. As I wrote in the...
December 29, 1976
Cabinet, Security Council, Neda [National Economic Development Authority], General Staff and Military Council Meeting on the agreement to settle the Mindanao conflict peacefully. No Official Gazette entry for this day.
December 28, 1976
Lunch conference with the governors and mayors of the 13 provinces affected by the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] agreement with Sec. [Jose] Roño and Sol. Gen Estellito Mendoza. Some problems have come up. If the plebiscite is all over the 13 provinces, all of...
December 27, 1976
Press conference at 11:30 am on the need to hold a plebiscite to determine which of the 13 provinces wanted to be included in the Muslim Regional government. No Official Gazette entry for this day.
December 26, 1976
Another project that I have started is getting close to Chief Minister Harris Saleh of Sabah. I have assigned Engineer Rodolfo Cuenca of CDCP [Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines] to this. Last night he attended the dinner at Malacañan and...
December 25, 1976
I have misgivings, still about Minister Ali Treki. He changed some of the provisions of the agreement when we were not looking. I hope these are only instances of oversight not malicious attempts at foisting a humiliating and one sided agreement on us. It may be...
December 24, 1976
USec. [Carmelo] Barbero called me up at 5:00 AM Manila time to inform me they have signed the ceasefire communique and are about to initial the agreement in general. I told him to befriend Nur Misuari and to establish a line of communication with him so that we can...
December 23, 1976
At 3:00 AM this morning when we called up Pres. [Muammar] Ghaddafy, Minister Ali Treki answered Imelda and confirmed that a final agreement in principle along my proposed compromise according to the constitutional processes of the Philippines had been adopted. Pres....
December 22, 1976
At 4:00 PM upon arrival from the airport departure of Thai Prime Minister Thanin Kraivichien, I was able to push through a telephone call through the unreliable Libyan communications system. USec. [Carmelo] Barbero jubilantly told me that last night at 8:00 PM Libya...