Pres. Panfilo Domingo, I am disturbed by the attached news that EEC [European Economic Council] has bought 5 years supply of sugar at $360 per ton or .1609 cents (US) per pound. I have issued orders to sell our sugar only on a five-year contract for at least 24 cents...

Sec. Juan Ponce Enrile, My orders were to court-martial even the enlisted men who are charged with torture in the 1st PC [Philippine Constabulary] Zone. I notice that they were merely separated from the service. Since serious crimes were commited they must be...

Monday Fatal plane crash of a PAL [Philippine Airlines] AVRO. 31 dead 5 crew members 26 passengers. One survivor an American. I have directed that the Armed Forces of the Philippines now increase its capability for: Ground operations to push out the rebels from towns...

Tuesday We are concentrating on the Muslim secessionist problem. So we are settling our problems with the Americans. I have bent backward to accommodate the desire of the American businessmen who want to continue the beneficial use of their lands—private land bought...

Monday I have agreed to a press statement and an aide memoire prepared by Dr. [Mohammad Hassan] El Tohamy I enclose these documents prepared during the morning meeting with Sec. [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.] but corrected by me 5:00 to 7:40 PM before Tohamy’s departure at...

Wednesday (My Birthday) The cry of happiness of two of the poorest families in Cabasan, Masantol, Pampanga when they started to look into the envelopes I had left with them as a gift and I had left their house to cross the waters surrounding their shack—was one of the...

Sunday What is the truth about the raid on the Novitiate of the Sacred Heart at Novaliches? Was there any basis for the raid? The truth is that there was reason to mid the Novitiate as Father Blanco even before Martial Law had been advocating revolution. Four...

Friday As I suspected Father [Jose] Blanco sought some more publicity by refusing to be released. PC [Philippine Constabulary] Chief MGen. [Fidel] Ramos did right by refusing to humour him—but courteously so. Because as he explained he had his orders to release him....

Saturday Archbishop Jaime Sin and Cardinal [Julio] Rosales met with me this morning. Archbishop Sin was almost apologetic for his almost condemnatory letter which will be read in the churches and in the vigil at 3:00 PM tomorrow. But I am disappointed in him. He has...

Tuesday Have ordered the declassification of the tentative findings of Intelligence Operations “Sea Hawk”; the briefing of the Catholic hierarchy, foreign correspondents and even the military officers on an on-the-record and off-the-record basis. This was after my...