1:00 AM April 18th Official Gazette for April 17, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has promulgated Presidential Decree No. 175, granting cooperatives the rights and privileges enjoyed by business organizations, including the operation of enterprises and rural banks. The decree...
Marcos Diaries
April 16, 1973
8:15 PM After dinner and meditation on board the 777 at Talaga Bay While meditations and prayers seem routine and a poor concession to religion or the church I find them conducive to the humility that gives a new—ever new—perspective. For my part while in everyday...
April 15, 1973
Woke up at 9:00 AM. Went skiing in the bay next to Talaga which had many _____ and was rough. Returned at 1:30 PM. Mass, Lunch, Rest and Meditation at 3:30 PM. Visited the beach house at 5:00 PM. Official Gazette for April 15, 1973: THE PRESIDENT was informed by a...
April 14, 1973
Official Gazette for April 14, 1973: THE PRESIDENT said the Government will soon embark on the pioneer production of small aircrafts to compliment the program to modernize strategically-situated airports in various points of the country. The President spelled this...
April 13, 1973
Official Gazette for April 13, 1973: THE PRESIDENT assured the country’s inventors of a “new deal” that will extend them organizational and financial assistance—from both the government and the private sector—in the production and marketing of their worthwhile...
April 12, 1973
Official Gazette for April 12, 1973: THE PRESIDENT ordered the drafting of a final government stand regarding a tax policy on private educational institutions in consonance with an amendment in the new Constitution that deleted tax exemptions on real property used for...
April 11, 1973
Written April 12th Official Gazette for April 11, 1973: THE PRESIDENT issued General Order No. 27 prohibiting any private contractor or person to use on any vehicle or equipment the orange color used to identify vehicles or equipment of the Bureau of Public Highways...
April 10, 1973
We are witnessing today a reenactment of the American double-cross of [Emilio] Aguinaldo in 1898. Official Gazette for April 10, 1973: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Secretary Vicente Abad Santos said that personnel holding positions declared to be policy-determining,...
April 9, 1973
Official Gazette for April 9, 1973: THE PRESIDENT told the new officers of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines that their plan to provide legal aid to indigents would promote the government’s program to enhance the people’s faith in the administration of justice....
April 7, 1973
1:30 AM April 8th Official Gazette for April 7, 1973: THE PRESIDENT promulgated two presidential decrees intended to-further bolster the government’s intensified drive against criminality by imposing stiff penalties against doctors and hospitals who refuse to report...