Joe [Jose] Campos who now holds 25% of Marcopper is buying about 20 million (twenty) shares from Brooks Cadwallader the original locator of the mine in Marinduque at one U.S. dollar a share, one million dollars down and two million dollars a month for ten months. This...
Marcos Diaries
February 24, 1973
Spent the whole day in Talaga bay where the dredging of sand for the beach and the picking up of the rocks and stones by the 10 ton public works crane goes on. We also tried the next bay which was calmer. Loyd Nelson Hand was with us. He skied and played pelota in the...
February 23, 1973
1:00 PM Feb. 24 On board the 777 Official Gazette for February 23, 1973: THE PRESIDENT directed all heads of departments, bureaus and agencies of the government, including the local governments, to extend the tallest support to the scouting movement and its projects,...
February 21, 1973
Official Gazette for February 21, 1973: MALACAÑANG HAS RELEASED the official text of two Presidential decrees, one providing for the allocation and expenditures of all money accruing to the Highway Special Fund and the other imposing a tax of 15 per cent on interest...
February 20, 1973
Official Gazette for February 20, 1973: THE PRESIDENT laid down three basic policies to prevent forest destruction and to encourage the establishment of wood processing industries. After inducting into office the officials of the Philippine Chamber of Wood Industries...
February 19, 1973
The AP [Associated Press] president Stan Swinton came to see me—a courtesy call and interview. The second biggest story of New York Times (Front page and full page in page 14) is the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Senate that an American killer was hired to...
February 18, 1973
Imelda and Imee have arrived by PAL [Philippine Airlines] from Rome at 7:25 PM. We have just come in from the dinner we gave for them. Triton, Podco and Pioneer came to see me this noon to report that they have struck a heavy pressure area in the Sulu Seas. The point...
February 17, 1973
Spent the day skiing in Talaga where we went early in the morning with Mother, Tony, Rudy, Alita, Bejo and Neling Nieto. Had difficulty converting to a monoski. And the water was cold, the wind very strong. Official Gazette for February 17, 1973: DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE...
February 16, 1973
Official Gazette for February 16, 1973: THE PRESIDENT ordered the Philippine Medical Care Commission (PMCC) to supervise and administer the expenditures of the income of government hospitals from the medicare program. The President’s instruction was aimed at...
February 15, 1973
The news is all good news. There is optimism and high expectations everywhere. Free flowing oil was brought from the drilling site of Southern Sierra Madre at Cotabato by Delegate Gilberto Duavit. Fine and clear. Better looking than the oil found in Cebu. Official...