Dr. Bob Chase of Stanford University Hospital arrived at about 5:30 AM and came to see Imelda at 10:00 AM.
He gave her a clean bill of expectations. She passed the neurology test with flying colors. Her nerves and tendons are working.
Pres. [Richard] Nixon’s office (Mary Woods and Earl Mazo) sent him.
He went back this afternoon.
Official Gazette for December 9, 1972: AS THE NATION’S history is being written, there is a future that awaits every Filipino, “a future that has room for all of us.” Secretary of Public Information Francisco S. Tatad before the Philippine College of Surgeons, said “This should be a future where there is genuine equality of opportunity and the exercise of one’s skills and gifts; where men who have given up corruption and privilege would have the opportunity to realize their basic humanity by the exercise of their creative talents.” Mr. Tatad said that it is “a future none of us should fear, beginning with those who today have much deference and privilege to give up.” For it is a society, he said, that will crown the individual for what he is, and not for what he has, where wealth or poverty will no longer be an issue, there having been a democratization of wealth, a levelling of status.”
DEFENSE SECRETARY Juan Ponce Enrile, on the other hand, told private business and industrial sectors to assume both discipline and sacrifice demanded by the present exigencies as “we enter this stage of institutional reforms and reorientation in national development.” Mr. Enrile said that while it is true that the profit motive is probably the most effective incentive of the private entrepreneurs for his assurance of growth in the market of competition, this motive will have to be subordinated to the social interests necessitated by prevailing circumstances. “At .no time should the profit motive be utilized to justify unreasonable excess returns on investment,” the secretary added.
SOME POLICIES embodied in the proposed Constitution will redound to improvement in the management of government finances and will have beneficial effects for private business enterprises. Finance Secretary Cesar E. A. Virata before a conference on “Business Prospects for 1973” explained that, under the proposed charter, the practice of enacting appropriation bills without the corresponding revenue measures to support such expenditures will no longer be possible. The finance secretary urged local bankers and financiers to invest in warehousing which is needed in the development program of the country. He specifically cited the area of grain storage. He noted that, under the General Banking Act, bankers are allowed to invest in allied undertakings and, therefore, individually or in groups, can invest in warehousing to serve the agricultural and industrial sectors.
COMMISSION ON Elections set the guidelines to be followed by local government treasurers as Comelec deputies in connection with the coming plebiscite on the new Constitution. The Comelec directed each treasurer of every province, city, municipality and municipal district not to be absent from office one week before and after January 15 next year, plebiscite day. Every treasurer was also directed to assign at all times a responsible person in his office to receive telegrams arid instructions from the Comelec on the plebiscite for immediate implementation. Meanwhile, the National Ratification Coordinating Council announced the formation of provincial and city coordinating committees as the nationwide information drive for the plebiscite gained momentum. Fifty-seven provincial governors and 55 city mayors have been appointed by the President to head their provincial and city coordinating committees.
AN INCREASE in number of farms planted to new high-yielding rice varieties all over the country was reported by the Bureau of Agricultural Extension. The total area planted to new varieties is 557,528 hectares as of November 30, 1972. This is 69 per cent of the goal set for the crop year 1972-73.
Sen. Charles Percy, touted as a possible Presidential candidate of the Republicans in 1976 but he seems supercilious, pompons and patronizing.
And the Russian counterpart of Marshall Green, Ambassador Speth.
The Sulu delegation.
Gen. [Fidel] Ramos came from Taipei.
And the story of the confession on the rightist coup d’e tat [sic].
We replayed the TV coverage of the assassin’s attempt and I cannot stop wondering at the salvation of Imelda.