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,...
Marcos Diaries
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...
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 23, 1976
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 the paper. Bali is a...
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.
February 21, 1976
Saturday 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...
February 17, 1976
I attach the Newsweek issue of Feb. 16th on India. P.M. [Prime Minister] Indira Gandhi has copied our measures, including the amnesty for income tax. But they have gone farther on arrests of political enemies and control of media. Malaysia has made it incumbent upon...
February 11, 1976
I am rather busy these days. Here are some of my preoccupations: Time Magazine’s “The Little Wars of Asia” with “Philippine Guerilla” Abdul Kahyr Alonto as cover. The article is not too one sided but it requires action by the Armed Forces. I attach the magazine. Ex...
September 2, 1975
Amb. [William] Sullivan and the State Dept.’s impression that the Aide Memoire left by Sec. Alex [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.] with Sec. of Defense [James] Schlesinger was an invocation of the Mutual Defense Pact by the Philippines. I told him point blank that this was...
July 21, 1975
Since my last entry in my diary last July, the month has been marked by dramatic events that dwelt on the change of course of our history. Today I received a letter from Al Caluang, or Benjamin Caluang, whose full name is AL-HUSSEIN CALUANG Y [JUADRAIN?] who carried...