Ex-Prime Minister Kiichi [Aiichi] arrived at 4:00 PM and called on me at 6:00 PM. Mr. Cyrus Salzburger and his wife Marina arrived at 6:10 PM and called on me at 7:00 PM. He is the chief Foreign Correspondent of the New York Times and was met by Imee. Our two guests...
Marcos Diaries
March 26, 1973
Played golf in Kaniao at The Mansion at 6:15 AM. Cold and unfamiliarly bundled in thick clothes. No feel on the clubs with Gen. [Romeo] 1Espino, Gov. [Ben] Palispis and Mayor [Luis] Lardizabal. Opened the new cemented road at the end of session road. Then took off at...
March 25, 1973
11:00 PM The Mansion at Baguio City Arrived by Fokker at 9:05 AM. Honor guard by the PMA [Philippine Military Academy] new senior class. 10:00-12:00 AM [sic]—After coffee and meeting with the governors, mayors and the four Presidential Project Supervisors—delivered...
March 24, 1973
Brought the IMF [International Monetary Fund] mission to a cruise to Luuk Bay up to 2:00 PM where we water skied and then visited with Cristina Ponce Enrile in Natipoan Cove, Nasugbu on where they have a beach house. Tried out the cigarette [vote?] to ski. Powerful...
March 23, 1973
Written on Mar. 24th at 11:40 PM There has been sudden enemy activity in Cotabato. In Maganoy and Carmen, Gen. [Fortunato] Abat has had to call for air strikes with napalm as in Maganoy 1,500 of the enemy massed against our troops, 1,000 from the east, 500 from the...
March 22, 1973
Phil. Army 76th Anniversary at Fort Bonifacio. Spoke of the Kamagong concept—the call of the 20 year old trainees to the Kamagong Battalions. This means limitless number of troops. The Malaysian Ambassador and Military Attache were there. It must have shocked them...
March 21, 1973
Official Gazette for March 21, 1973: MALACANANG issued Memorandum Circular No. 627 clarifying the new schedule of office hours for government offices in the Greater Manila area, on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The circular provides: 1) There must be a skeletal...
March 20, 1973
Official Gazette for March 20, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has approved the resolution of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) limiting the scope of price control to basic commodities that are consumed by the low-income groups to enable a more effective...
March 19, 1973
I have ordered the BSDU’s [Barrio Self-Defense Units] to be organized in all the provinces that may be hit by the insurgents (the three Davaos and North and South Cotabato, the two Lanaos, Basilan, the two Zamboangas and Sulu as well as Balabac and Palawan) he...
March 18, 1973
There is a fire in the center of Jolo and shooting all around, according to Gen. J. [Jose] Rancudo who received the news from his airforce ground troops in the airfield thereat. It may or may not mean an attack on the city. But it is the only disturbing event for the...