Sunday Imelda called up at about 7:00 AM from San Francisco (50% [sic] Fahrenheit and spring weather, she says) where she is waiting for some repairs of their plane, on their way back to Manila. They arrive Monday at 6:30 PM. Went on a Sentimental Journey. Left by the...

I met Bishop [Joseph] Regan and Archbishop [Antonio] Mabutas today as they requested. They both feigned ignorance of the subversive activities of priests and nuns as well as laity under them. But they were shocked by the documents we showed them. Johnny [Juan] Ponce...

I must decide when to call an election—early next year or later in 1979 or 1980. I prefer 1977 but some of the leaders are strongly against it. The concern of [James] Carter and his Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, for human rights worries me. They may not be informed...

I have talked by telephone to Imelda who is now in Libya. She has had a long two hour and a half conference with Col. [Muammar] Kaddaffi whom she apparently convinced to visit the Philippines in January and to think of himself as a world leader because he is young,...

The Libyans are, as I expected, proving difficult to deal with on the question of the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front]. As of 9:30 AM our time, they have been meeting for the whole day up to 2:00 AM on the joint communique. And all because Minister Ali Treki want...

Monday The threat posed by the priests and front organizations has died down because of the overwhelming mandate of the people in the Oct. 16, 1976 referendum-plebiscite. Whenever there should be such threats that arise out of a claim that the subversives speak for...

Chairman [Geronimo] Velasco, PNOC [Philippine National Oil Company] Sec. [Alfredo] Junio, Dept. of Public Works I hereby direct that the biogas experimental project should include one big model for the city of Manila garbage. Prepare the plans and the funding required...

Col. [Antonio] Uy, CIS [Criminal Investigation Service], I direct you to conduct an investigation of what I consider to be the fraudulent activities of Villavert, Bassalo and Mrs. Abas (mother-in-law of Ex Sen. [Mamintal] Tamano) who keep asking for getting and...

Friday Imelda left for Libya with an overnight stop-over at Rome. Her plane took off at 10:00 PM. It is a DC-8 PAL [Philippine Airlines] that carried about 60 members of her entourage including an economic mission headed by Sec. Vicente Paterno. She goes to the lion’s...

PNB [Philippine National Bank] Pres. [Panfilo] Domingo, In view of the present problem on animal feeds and feed grains I direct that the old sugar mill area of several thousand hectares (8,000 ha., I believe) in San Jose, Mindoro be converted into a feed grain area....