Met General Secretary Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev at 5:30 AM. [PM] He also has a slur (much less than Mao [Zedong] but appreciable) and his mind wanders when I was responding to his opening statement he was attracted by ink spots he got from an open American fountain [pen]...
1976
May 31, 1976
At the Kremlin, Moscow In the Tzars Rooms The study May 31, 1976 The immensity of Russian territory is mind-bggling. The State Dinner was finished at about 10:00 PM, starting at 7:00 PM. So I have some time to work on the documents: the Communique that establishes...
May 9, 1976
Diary New Delhi 11:00 PM I write this in the Dwarka Suite of the Rastrapati Bhavan, The President’s Palace of India, the former English Viceroy’s Palace. We have just had a private dinner tendered by Her Excellency Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Present were her...
May 7, 1976
President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, whom we visited at the Nakuro State House is a crotchety cranky old man at 84. He walks with a cane and a limp although he has a young 42 year old wife. He talks hesitantly. Nairobi is a city of wide open spaces and wide streets but this...
May 7, 1976 Diary
Diary May 7, 1976 Left London at 10:30 PM (actually about 11:00 PM) London time to arrive at Cairo at 3:26 AM London time May 5, 1976 or 4:26 AM Cairo time (one hour time difference). Visited the pyramids and the sphinx, breakfast at Nieva Hotel beside it and left for...
April 10, 1976
Gov. Ali Dimaporo of Lanao del Sur reports that he has had a conference, the other might, with Abulkayr Alonto, the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] Vice-Chairman. He was willing to join the government forces provided his uncle, Ex Sec. Domocao Alonto says so....
April 9, 1976
I deliberately cut my Bataan Day Dambana ng Kagitingan to the simplest and starkest statements. I attach the speech. The corrected transcript is not what I delivered. Most of the Insert I I did not deliver. Too prolix for such an audience. But good and informative for...
April 8, 1976
I have just signed the ratification of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and the Agreement for the Establishment of an ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] Secretariat. We are the first member to ratify the two documents. I also issued instructions to Sec....
April 7, 1976
While we were inaugurating the Philippine Art Center, the PAL [Philippine Airlines] BAC-11 plane in Cagayan de Oro was being hijacked by three men. I have directed Contingency Plan No. I on Hijacks which is erode the will of the hijackers by continuous negotiations...
April 5, 1976
I have directed MGen. [Fabian] Ver to bring Lt. Gen. Vernon Walthers, the Deputy Chief of the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] who is here apparently for the transfer of their headquarters from Bangkok to Manila, to see me at the Palace at 12:00 AM [sic]. We want to...