Monday Nardong Putik alias Leonardo Manecio, Cavite bandit chieftain was shot and killed inside his red Impala car by the NBI [National Bureau of Investigation] at about 8:00 this morning at Panamitan, Kawit, Cavite. The PC [Philippine Constabulary] and local police...
Marcos Diaries
October 5, 1971
Tuesday I have just finished autographing the books and other literature Imelda is bringing as gifts to India, Iran, England and the U.S. What a chore! And we saw the Liberal’s film of Plaza Miranda which included some interviews of the Liberal candidates. Pure and...
October 7, 1971
Thursday We have just finished a meeting with about 44 delegates to the Cons. Con. [Constitutional Convention] at [Bahay] Pangarap. They themselves decided to organize and choose their leaders for an open confrontation with the [Raul] Manglapus-[Teofisto] Guingona...
October 1, 1971
Friday The web-fed printing press that is in storage at the stadium may just be the machinery required for the newspaper we intend to publish. Johnny Perez is checking. Have just met Justice Fred Ruiz Castro. He came to tell me at 9:00 PM at [Bahay] Pangarap that...
September 23, 1971
Looks like the House version of the sugar act in the US will be adopted by the conference committee. This piece of good news was conveyed to me by Ambassador [Ramon] Nolan by long distance telephone at 8:00 AM. I have ordered that he now work on the World Sugar Quota...
September 29, 1971
Wednesday Arrived at 11:00 AM at Pier 5 and immediately went to work. Suspended all releases of public works funds including calamity funds. Directed the balances of the different items to be determined. Met [Faustino] Com. Sychangco on this. Most of my time was...
September 17, 1971
Friday This morning I ordered the drafting of two proclamations for the gradual lifting of the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus—one for the Visayas and Ilocos down to Pangasinan, Batangas, Catanduanes, Masbate, Marinduque, Romblon, the two...
September 21, 1971
Dear Imee, My sweet adorable scramble-brained eldest daughter who claims the temperament of a prima donna and the objectivity of an Oxford Don, you have just written one of the most touching letters in the history of the generation gap. We read it while we were having...
September 11, 1971
10:00 AM I start to write a second book on my birthday. The momentum pushes me forward. And just like the first this is a book that begs, nay, demands to be written. It is the book of the third world, mostly Asia, Africa and Latin-America about which Western writers...
September 12, 1971
Sunday As usual the columns of Max [Maximo] Soliven and [Mariano] Querol in Manila Times are raving mad about my book and statements. And Sen. [Jose] Diokno heads a supposed massive rally of Concerned Citizens tomorrow at Plaza Miranda. Sen. [Gerardo] Roxas asks me...