Imee arrived at 6:45 AM. I could not meet her as I was in bed trying to sleep off the librium I took last night when I could not sleep up to 2:00 AM. Al Lim on the report of 6 NPA’s [New People’s Army] armed with Armalites sighted in Pantian at the boundary of...
Marcos Diaries
August 17, 1972
The Sugar conference—Traders, refiners and planters at 10:00 AM—with Sec. [Troadio] Quiazon [Jr.] and Sugar Quota Adm. Jose Unson. Ordered 270,000 piculs of raw sugar to be refined. This plus the 900,000 bags of refined sugar is equivalent to four months of domestic...
August 16, 1972
Could not play golf nor exercise because have contracted a cold and seem to be feeling a general malaise symptomatic of the flu. Took two pills of Decolgen yesterday morning and a pill of Decolgen and one pill of Tylenol three times a day until today. But met my...
August 15, 1972
Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] excitedly cabled by long distance from San Francisco to report that he has solved the problem of Imee’s pre-Princeton school. It is Monterrey, the best Catholic School for girls in the U.S. two and a half hours away from San Francisco by car...
August 14, 1972
Imee left for the U.S. with [Virginia] Nena Nable to check what schools she can go to—the National Cathedral or Wellesley and some others before Princeton next year. [Benjamin] Kokoy Romualdez left yesterday to prepare her schedule. We decorated Lt. Gen. Marvin L....
August 13, 1972
All the sugar warehouses and mills in Luzon have been sealed. We estimate we have 25,000 tons of refined sugar and another 25,000 tons of refined sugar, from centrifugal sugar in the mills and warehouses. The INSUREFCO [Insular Sugar Refining Company] will start...
August 12, 1972
Ordered the confiscation of sugar in Luzon sugar mills and warehouses. I attach copy of order. Official Gazette for August 12, 1972: THE PRESIDENT declared a state of public calamity in nine Visayan and Mindanao provinces which had experienced long periods of severe...
August 11, 1972
The budget was approved last night. The Progressive Car Manufacturing Program should be decided soon. We stick to five but quietly give Universal a chance to prove itself by a Central Bank allocation to see if it can comply with its offer. We retain the option to...
August 10, 1972
Arrived from Ilocos Norte by Fokker at 11:10 AM. Press Interview at 1:00 AM [sic]. Bued River Bridge opened to traffic at 9:00 AM. By 12:00 AM [sic] about 1,000 trucks had passed the bridge. Ordered air photography and physical survey to determine the encroachments on...
August 9, 1972
Helicoptered to Paratong (Sta. Rlta) to see the nipa house on the beach again with Imelda at 8:00 AM. Returned to the airport at 9:10 AM. Took off for Laoag at 9:30. Landed at 9:55 AM. Ablan Day. Lunch at Cong. [Roque] Ablan [Jr.] house. Currimao for a beach house at...