Marcos Diaries

June 11, 12, 13, 1973

11:45 PM June 13th Official Gazette for June 11, 1973: MUSLIM WORLD League delegation which has just returned to Manila from a fact-finding mission in Mindanao said they were very much impressed by the progress in the island’s development. The visiting Muslim leaders...

June 10, 1973

Returned from Talaga Bay at 6:00 PM. Fished up to 9:00 AM from 5:00 AM. Then waterskied up to 2:00 PM. On the way back to Manila passed by Mariveles. Pilas (the low portion of the hills of Cochinas Point is a protection from the Southwest wind. So it could be used...

June 9, 1973

Spent the morning slaloming with the balls marking the slalom course at Looc Cove. It started to get windy at 10:00 AM. Official Gazette for June 9, 1973: THE PRESIDENT issued Presidential Decree No. 207 ratifying the United Nations 1968 conventions in Vienna on road...

June 8, 1973

Official Gazette for June 8, 1973: THE PRESIDENT said the country’s development efforts are geared toward evolving a balanced agro-industrial economic system wherein each citizen must harness his full productive potentials for national welfare. In a speech keynoting...

June 6, 1973

12:00 PM After the dinner for Admiral and Mrs. Noel Gayler June 7, 1973 No Official Gazette entry for this day. Official Gazette for June 7, 1973: DEPARTMENT of Finance need not review a local tax ordinance which, due to its oppressive or confiscatory nature, has-been...

June 5, 1973

Official Gazette for June 5, 1973: THE GOVERNMENT’S efforts to develop Manila as another trade hub of international firms in Southeast Asia are being complemented by findings of United States and United Kingdom newspapers showing it as one of the least expensive...

June 4, 1973

Official Gazette for June 4, 1973: THE PRESIDENT during an interview with former Secretary of Education Onofre D. Corpus on “Freedom of Self-determination” at the television program. “The DPI Report” remarked that the hallmarks of world approval of the Philippines’...

June 3, 1973

Slept at Looc Cove at 10:00 PM. Woke up at 4:00 AM. Went fishing at 5:00 AM up to Natipoan Bat along the Batangas coast. No fish up to 7:00 AM. But the mountains and the sea were ethereal in the soft early dawn as well as the sunrise later on. Reminded me of my youth...

June 2, 1973

Slept at 12:00 PM last night and woke up at 6:00 AM to go fishing. We were off Malaratuan proceeding to Lubang off Ambil Island. Official Gazette for June 2, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has declared the development of a nationwide net work of locally controlled waterworks and...

June 1, 1973

Official Gazette for June 1, 1973: THE PRESIDENT announced that all foreign firms setting up manufacturing plants in the Philippines have applied for space in the Export Processing Zone in Mariveles, Bataan. He made the announcement as he reiterated his advice before...