Thai Prime Minster Thanin Kraivichien tried to revive the Seato [Southeast Asia Treaty Organization] as well as establish some kind of a bilateral military arrangement with the Philippines outside ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations]. I convinced him this is...

Monday 6:20 AM I have been up since USec. [Carmelo] Barbero called up from Tripoli to tell me they have agreed on all the points that I cleared before he left except for the area. [Nur] Misuari supported by Ali Treki insist on all of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan to be...

Saturday After a one-hour and a half caucus last night (7:00-8:30) while the Batasang Bayan was willing to pass some kind of enabling act on elections of my choice, I decided that we should sleep on the problem of how and when to hold elections although I was as of...

Sunday Imelda called up at about 7:00 AM from San Francisco (50% [sic] Fahrenheit and spring weather, she says) where she is waiting for some repairs of their plane, on their way back to Manila. They arrive Monday at 6:30 PM. Went on a Sentimental Journey. Left by the...

I met Bishop [Joseph] Regan and Archbishop [Antonio] Mabutas today as they requested. They both feigned ignorance of the subversive activities of priests and nuns as well as laity under them. But they were shocked by the documents we showed them. Johnny [Juan] Ponce...

I must decide when to call an election—early next year or later in 1979 or 1980. I prefer 1977 but some of the leaders are strongly against it. The concern of [James] Carter and his Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, for human rights worries me. They may not be informed...

I have talked by telephone to Imelda who is now in Libya. She has had a long two hour and a half conference with Col. [Muammar] Kaddaffi whom she apparently convinced to visit the Philippines in January and to think of himself as a world leader because he is young,...

The Libyans are, as I expected, proving difficult to deal with on the question of the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front]. As of 9:30 AM our time, they have been meeting for the whole day up to 2:00 AM on the joint communique. And all because Minister Ali Treki want...

Monday The threat posed by the priests and front organizations has died down because of the overwhelming mandate of the people in the Oct. 16, 1976 referendum-plebiscite. Whenever there should be such threats that arise out of a claim that the subversives speak for...

Chairman [Geronimo] Velasco, PNOC [Philippine National Oil Company] Sec. [Alfredo] Junio, Dept. of Public Works I hereby direct that the biogas experimental project should include one big model for the city of Manila garbage. Prepare the plans and the funding required...