Sunday Guns, Gangsters and the Reduction of the Meralco [Manila Electric Company] rates—these are the news that have gone big in the United States. 17,000 guns captured and surrendered is a massive number indeed which that is preoccupied with terrorism. So too with...

As I expected the Liberals and the Manila Times have started to make much of OPlan Saggitarius [sic]. So I have openly appealed to the Liberals not to connive with the communists, revealing that Jose Maria Sison and other communists have met with Liberals for a common...

Tuesday Released the report of Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile of Sept. 8, 1972 wherein he reported that Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] had met with Jose Maria Sison of the Communist Party and had talked about a link-up of the Liberal Party and the Communist Party. I attach...

Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] is, of course, playing a double game. He was in danger from the Maoists, as reported by him to Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile when he (Aquino) interviewed Flewelyn [sic] [Fluellen] Ortigas in the stockade. He had been told by Ortigas that he,...

Have a TV-Radio interview at 4:00 PM on 1. The Relief and Rehabilitation work 2. The Progressive Car Manufacturing Program 3. Sen. Daniel Inouye (I mistakenly referred to him as from Japan but I later corrected myself 4. The exchange of military information with...

Saturday Imee arrived at 6:45 AM. I could not meet her as I was in bed trying to sleep off the librium I took last night when I could not sleep up to 2:00 AM. Al Lim on the report of 6 NPA’s [New People’s Army] armed with Armalites sighted in Pantian at the boundary...

Saturday Again a sore throat and a cold. I called a conference of doctors including Director [Gabriel] Carreon of the PGH, Dr. Yap, Dr. Canto (in the morning) and Dr. [Juanita] Zagala on why my resistance has gone down. Probably the fact that my cholesterol has...

Praised the Sto. Niño at the balcony. Then mass on steps of Maharlika. And the great multitude was crying as the procession waded through mud and water Recto Ave., Dagupan (past Rizal Avenue) Sande, then to the church. People joined the procession, lined the streets...

Tired from the National Disaster Control Council at Fort Aguinaldo. Left Palace at 3:10 PM in a huge bus and arrived 4:00 PM. Meeting up to 7:00 PM. TV and Radio interview up to 7:45 PM. I attach papers. Water in Sta. Mesa waist-high.

The four teams of the 4th IB [Infantry Battalion] led by Lt. Santos captured 100 M-14 rifles and 30 boxes of ammunition (7.62) as of 1840 today. I suspect that the insurgents were able to carry out anywhere from 200 to 400 rifles and 20,000 rounds of ammunition...