Typhoon Unding hit us in Manila at about 4:00 AM but slowed down from 205 kms per hour to 130 kms an hour when it hit the Sierra Madre. And then it veered a little so its eye missed Manila move north and hit Nueva Ecija, Tarlac and Zamboanga up to Pangasinan. At 5:20...
Marcos Diaries
November 12, 1977
Interviews— Luncheon meeting with the military bases panel to prepare for the meeting with Amb. [David] Newsom and staff next Wednesday at 10:00 AM. We will emphasize the transfer of the administration of the military bases to a Filipino commander and a definite are...
November 11, 1977
Ambassador [David] Newsom presented his credentials today at 10:00 AM then met me at 12:00 AM [sic] on a preliminary conversation on the bases and other military agreements. We get some of the of the more urgent military equipment. I attach the list. And a proposal on...
November 10, 1977
Jose Maria Sison was captured at 2:45 AM today at an Underground House in San Fernando, La Union (south of it near the hospital at the new disco neighborhood). The team leader was Col. Ismael Rodrigo of Batac, I. [Ilocos] Norte under the supervision of C-2 Col....
November 8, 1977
Some of our own leaders have misgivings about calling an election both for local leaders and the Interim Batasan Pambansa. But I believe it is time to do so. Next year may be economically worse for the world and the Philippines with it. The presidential mandate this...
November 7, 1977
I am now convinced that the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] and their individual leaders have no intention of honoring the ceasefire nor of agreeing to a mere solution of autonomy in the whole of Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and Palawan. I am also...
November 5, 1977
Arrival of Imelda at 6:10 PM from the U.S. She has been away since Sept. 25, 1977 on the following missions: To deliver and explain the letter I wrote to Pres. [James] Carter on the military bases and other military problems. It presents a new concept for...
October 14, 1977
I have approved the plan to hit the main camp of the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] at Taban at the boundary of Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur—about 90 kilometers Northeast of from Zamboanga City. There have been attacks by Al Caluang on Anonang then...
October 10, 1977
Presentiment or precognition about Usman Sali. BGen. Teodulfo Bautista with 34 officers and men were massacred at the Danag marketplace, Patikul, Jolo Island Sulu today. He was on a mission of peace as he was invited to a conference by Usman Sali presumably for a...
August 30, 1977
National Heroes Day My paper on Breaking the Stalemate on the Sabah claim has just come out in full in the press. I have not written of it, but because of the Sabah claim, one of the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu, Sultan Ombra Amilbangsa, husband of Piandao Kiram,...