Tuesday The negotiations in Baguio on the military bases started today. Cordial and even tempered. The U.S. panel did not seek postponement as we expected. They have agreed on a listing of issues with sovereignty 1st, it not being contested by the U.S. even in their...
1976
June 12, 1976
Saturday Independence Day in austerity.
June 13, 1976
Sunday Reassessed the typhoon damage in Central Luzon and the sources of the funds for repair.
June 11, 1976
Friday The children left at 7:30 PM for New York. Have issued various directives: The creation of a new department on Environmental Protection. Acquisition of big lands for resettlement of squatters and housing. Cancellation of all forest concessions on the Western...
June 10, 1976
Thursday On board the Ang Pangulo Dinner conference on the military bases negotiations last night. I had ordered the original proposed agreement which marked out the facilities or area for the United States. We left this area blank in the final draft to depend on the...
June 9, 1976
MGen. F. [Fabian] Ver BGen. I. [Ignacio] Paz, Although we have normalized relations with the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and I have reason to trust the word of their leaders that they will not attempt to subvert our Republic,...
June 8, 1976
Tuesday Hectic 10 days in Russia from May 30th to June 8th. Entrance through Khavarovsk, Siberia and exit through Tashkent, Uzbekistan with Novosibirsk, Moscow, Leningrad, Volvograd in between. Arrived at 9:00 AM—“No changes in our social or economic system.” Nor does...
June 9, 1976
Wednesday I have just ordered the Intelligence agencies (NISA [National Intelligence and Security Authority] and J-2 [Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence]) to prepare a plan to counteract any plan of subversion on the part of the Peoples Republic of China and the...
June 5, 1976
Volgograd Temperature was 24 C at our arrival 12:15 AM [sic], windy. Rain and flood at about 4:00 PM while going up Mamayev Hill where the great 83 meter monument is. The first in a long, long time that it rained and hailed on a summer day. The waters were about a...
June 4, 1976
Leningrad is a very obvious effort since Peter the Great of the early 18th century, to be like Paris. The bridges and avenues, the sculpture, paintings— And Isaac Cathedral— Or the grillwork at the Summer Palace of Peter the Great or the First— Or Peter's Palace...