Ordered the withdrawal of all Metrocom [Metropolitan Command] units from the four cities of Manila, Quezon, Pasay and Caloocan after the mayors formally assumed their legal role of being primarily responsible for the maintenance of peace and order in their respective...
Marcos Diaries
February 3, 1971
I ordered the withdrawal of the Metrocom [Metropolitan Command] and the QCPD Official Gazette for February 3, 1971: President Marcos met with a delegation of fishermen from around Manila Bay who sought the government’s assistance in preventing illegal fishing and in...
February 2, 1971
7:20 PM as I await the dinner for Mr. J. George Harrar, Pres. of the Rockefeller Foundation The jeepney drivers' strike has failed to stop traffic but the radical students at UP [University of the Philippines], [University of] Sto. Tomas and Ateneo [de Manila...
February 1, 1971
Official Gazette for February 1, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS conferred on Ambassador Federico Barrera Fuentes, Mexican envoy to the Philippines, the Order of Sikatuna, rank of Lakan, in a ceremony at Malacañang. Present at the ceremony were First Lady Mrs. Imelda R....
January 31, 1971
The Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan and other local governments are preparing for the jeepney drivers' strike. Metrocom [Metropolitan Command] with support units will back up the local police. It is now the plan to arrest those who block traffic or sabotage operating...
January 30, 1971
Official Gazette for January 30, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS met with his Cabinet to discuss ways and means of effectively moving the bureaucracy, to push to the level of the rural masses the President’s “democratic revolution” for 1971. The meeting, which started at...
January 29, 1971
Worked on the reconstruction, PACD [Presidential Assistant on Community Development], infrastructure and agricultural recovery program. I had the secretary of finance, the secretary of public works, the commissioner of the budget, commissioner on Highways and the BOI...
January 28, 1971
Met about 25 of the leading businessmen of the country in a merienda hosted by Andy Soriano at his Forbes Park home this afternoon at 4:00 - 6:00 PM. I informed them that the communists or subversives were slowly sapping the vitality of our country; that the...
January 27, 1971
There is still an atmosphere of hopeful expectancy for the Democratic Revolution. The greater number of our people are happy about the peaceful tum of events. And there has been a complete tum-about. Indicative of this is the new attitude of Charlie Palanca, President...
January 26, 1971
Had the governors and city mayors for lunch at the State Dining room. In my speech I spoke of the brotherhood between all Filipinos during the euphoria of independence in 1946; how that brotherhood was lost by the materialism of the next twenty-five years and how we...