Friday We have hit oil again!! At the Reed Bank by Salen and Amoco. At 7:00 PM the telephone call came to inform us that oil and gas started to flow at the drill ship Brinkerhof. It is 110 miles NW off the Palawan Coast. This changes the whole economic situation. This...
Marcos Diaries
July 28, 1976
Wednesday Revealed the fact that before the proclamation of martial law I had to decide on the issue of whether to establish a revolutionary government and approve a “prescription list” of those to be eliminated as “obstacles to the revolution” or to continue with the...
July 26, 1976
Monday I followed up the instructions I issued last Friday on the field commanders being allowed to handle the problem of the Christian Left on their level. I have directed that we now study the calling a constituent assembly to amend the constitution to consider: The...
July 27, 1976
Tuesday Salen and Amoco at Reed Bank confirmed by electric log the estimate that 90% they have hit oil. They will bring up the oil by drill stem test on Friday the 30th of July. If we have hit oil, then the drilling is a back to back jackpot. And this makes the whole...
July 18, 1976
Sunday The Military Bases negotiating panel with Secs. [Carlos] Romulo and [Juan Ponce] Enrile and Sol. Gen. [Estelito] Mendoza, USec. [Amado] Inciong, BIR [Bureau of Internal Revenue] Com. [Efren] Plana and their staff reported to me at 1:00-1:30 that the Americans...
July 20, 1976
Tuesday We have to prepare to take the slack in construction (now occupying 20,000-30,000 laborers) of hotels by early 1977 because by then the jobs in hotel construction will be over. So the following have to be done. The new government center or centers, 200...
July 16, 1976
Friday The American panel has adopted an apparently uncompromising and immovable stand that the military facilities given for their use be “associated” with the Philippine bases. This is supposed to be the instructions from Washington. I have told the Philippine panel...
July 17, 1976
Saturday At 9:07 tonight Ronnie [Geronimo] Velasco of PNOC [Philippine National Oil Company] reported to me at the pelota court by telephone that the Amoco consultants as well as the Salen exports believe they have hit oil at Sampaguita I. They will do an electric log...
July 13, 1976
Tuesday The Philippines has been attracting the US weeklies lately. I attach two articles of the Newsweek of July 12, 1976. The Time story on the Israeli rescue of the 103 hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda is ______.
July 15, 1976
Thursday Ex. Mayor Antonio Villegas is reported as seeking political asylum in the U.S. attach cabled report. Arnold Zeitlin is up to his old tricks of deliberately libeling the Philippines. He is a yellow journalist who can only attract attention with distorted...