The Bulletin (alone) carried a story of the “Ang Bayan” the Communist paper’s editorial charging “an alleged plot of the U.S.-Marcos clique” to undertake senseless bombings and shootouts and to disrupt public meetings of both the Nacionalista and Liberal parties...

I just talked to Kokoy [Benjamin] Romunldez at Washington on the cablegram report of Ambassador Eduardo Romualdez on his talks to Marshall Green, the State Department man of the Far East on the reported Japanese plan to recognize Red China, in which conversation...

We are at [Bahay] Pangarap which has been tastefully decorated by Imee with Japanese dolls, paintings, frame paper partitions and scrolls, Imari jars, vases, plates and painted screens to make it look like a Japanese house, watching the opening ceremonies of the XX...

The children have a party for 20 with Kimpura food at [Bahay] Pangarap. Imelda is with them and I am alone at the State Dining Room watching the movie Eye of the Hurricane while writing my diary. (Imelda just arrived) Just finished all the paperwork that has piled up...

Official Gazette for August 24, 1972: THE PRESIDENT met with the Cabinet to analyze the Supreme Court decision on parity rights and to discuss measures toward preventing confusion, or possible dislocation of the economy, which might result from a possible...

Met Foreign Minister Kim Yong Shih of Korea who is here as the guest of Sec. [Carlos] Romulo and who is apparently here to ask Sec. Romulo to help prevent the Korea issue to be brought up by the North Koreans in the UN [United Nations]. My feeling is that he thinks...

I have directed the Sec. of Justice with the Solicitor General to anal[y]ze the Supreme Court decisions on Parity and ownership of public and private agricultural land. To stop speculations and possible misunderstanding I wrote the Secretary the guidelines that his...

We are waiting for Danny [Daniel] and Ising [Maria Luisa] Madrigal so that they can meet with Tony [Antonio], Belek [Jose], Chito [Consuelo] and Macaria, Ising’s brothers and sisters. We are trying to amicably settle their quarrel about their property. Usually in...

Parity rights end in 1974. Public agricultural lands sold to Americans must escheat in that year. Sales of private agricultural land are void. So decided the Supreme Court Chief Justice J. B. L. Reyes yesterday. The government won its case in the case filed by William...

Again a sore throat and a cold. I called a conference of doctors including Director [Gabriel] Carreon of the PGH, Dr. Yap, Dr. Canto (in the morning) and Dr. [Juanita] Zagala on why my resistance has gone down. Probably the fact that my cholesterol has reduced to 176...