While we were inaugurating the Philippine Art Center, the PAL [Philippine Airlines] BAC-11 plane in Cagayan de Oro was being hijacked by three men. I have directed Contingency Plan No. I on Hijacks which is erode the will of the hijackers by continuous negotiations...
Marcos Diaries
April 5, 1976
I have directed MGen. [Fabian] Ver to bring Lt. Gen. Vernon Walthers, the Deputy Chief of the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] who is here apparently for the transfer of their headquarters from Bangkok to Manila, to see me at the Palace at 12:00 AM [sic]. We want to...
April 3, 1976
If I had been forewarned of the drift of the dissenting opinions in the Javellana vs. The Ex. Sec. cases and that there was danger of losing then I would have cut the Gordian knot and declared the establishment of a revolutionary government so that we could swiftly...
April 1, 1976
Ex-Pres. [Diosdado] Macapagal has just announced tonight that he is seeking asylum in the U.S. Embassy. Poor man. He must be a pitiful sight. A has-been trying hard to be noticed and to play Don Quixote de la Mancha! If Ambassador [William] Sullivan wrote the script,...
March 11, 1976
We have struck oil in the Nido-1 well in City Services (Phil.) and Husky Oil in partnership with Oriental Petroleum and Mineral Co., Landoil, Basie, Philodrill. It is 42 kilometers from Malampaya Sound or Nido town in Palawan or directly west of the Calantian group of...
March 1, 1976
North Vietnam has declared through comments accredited to “Commentators” which usually means their senior officials, that the non-communist government of Southeast Asia must be overthrown by communist insurgencies which they encouraged. We spent the whole day until...
February 27, 1976
The Readers Digest March copy features Imelda in the article “Minutable Imelda” by Beth Day. I attach the copy. And her speech at the luncheon given for her by Mr. Edward Thompson, Reader’s Digest Editor-in-Chief and his wife Nancy this noon at the Hilton Coral Room....
February 25, 1976
Arrived from Bali, Den Pasar, Indonesia at 1:30 PM Manila time. We left Bali at 9:00 AM Indonesia time (or 10:00 AM Manila time) and traveled by DC-8 Philippine Air Lines charter for three hours and a half. It is unknown where this text comes from because this entry...
February 23, 1976
Bali, Den Pasar, Indonesia The Newsweek in its Feb. 23rd issue has come out with a favorable story on Imelda’s interview by printing it word for word sowing her as sharp and even intellectual. Shades of the [Henry] Kissinger exchange on Oriental spiritualism. I attach...
February 21, 1976
There may be no Summit Conference. This I told Gen. Yoga [Sugomo] last Wednesday when Pres. Soeharto sent him to see me about our insistence to change the Declaration of Economic Cooperation into an ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] Concord and the...