Guest House When I was approaching Green No. 12 (we started at Hole No. 10) Paoay Lake Golf Course, I received the call to go back to the house at Paoay Lake to receive the telephone call of Sen. [Daniel] Inouye for which I had delayed my trip back to Manila. In short...

Paoay Lake When the United States decided to normalize relations with the People’s Republic of China, I concluded that the danger of nuclear war was reduced. Since the threat of nuclear attack, against which there could be a certain complete defense, was one of the...

Paoay Lake I decided to call Sen. Dan [Daniel] Inouye to seek his help, today. It is providential that our house in Paoay Lake has a long distance telephone that can reach any part of the world. Sen. Inouye was in Washington when I arrived at 2:00 PM from the...

At 8:00 AM I called up Amb. [Richard] Murphy by telephone to inform him that after he left the Philippine group met and agreed to inform him of the Philippine position: Leave the matter of jurisdiction unresolved but that the U.S. govt. [government] should agree to...

Saturday Seaside At 9:00 AM Ambassador [Richard] Murphy came to my home at 21, 2nd Street, Paranaque (Seaside) to deliver to me the text of a letter of President [James] Carter informing me of his projected announcement 9 PM Washington time, which would be 10 AM...

Conversations on Military Bases with Amb. R. [Richard] Murphy. What is meant by “external attack?” We raised this with the mutual defense board in 197______ at the beginning of the [William] Sullivan-[Eduardo] Romualdez negotiations. Does it include infusion of...

Friday Today is a day of crucial decisions. Not only the Metro Manila primary but the last day for filing the certificates of candidacy for the April 7 election but now I shall remember it as the day the American government tried to pressure me to change the National...

My assessment is that we need martial law to bring about a successful termination of the secessionist movement of the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Movement]. If martial law is now lifted even partially, the MNLF will not be under any pressure to negotiate a...

When I was approaching Green No. 12 (we started at Hole No. 10) Paoay Lake Golf Course, I received the call to go back to the house at Paoay Lake to receive the telephone call of Sen. [Daniel] Inouye for which I had delayed my trip back to Manila. In short he said...

I decided to call Sen. Dan [Daniel] Inouye to seek his help, today. It is providential that our house in Paoay Lake has a long distance telephone that can reach any part of the world. Sen. Inouye was in Washington when I arrived at 2:00 PM from the inauguration of the...