The UP [University of the Philippines] radicals lifted the barricades in the UP but military intelligence reports that the radicals reconditioned two training machine guns and
Official Gazette for February 9, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS gave final instructions to three Philippine ambassadors assigned to different countries abroad; and received other visitors at Malacañang.
Ambassador Narciso Reyes, newly appointed permanent representative to the United Nations, reported to the President of his initial meetings with the UNDP governing council from January 14 to 29 this year.
A former Philippine envoy to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Reyes informed the President that he had flown direct from London to present his credentials to the UN president in New York and subsequently attended meetings of the UNDP.
Other envoys who received their instructions were Ambassador Gregorio Abad who was assigned to Australia and Ambassador Modesto Farolan who brief the President before returning to his post in Jakarta.
Earlier in the morning, the President signed the ₱4.574 billion national budget proposed for the ensuing fiscal year and sent the same to Congress for its consideration, thus beating the headline set by law for his submission of the appropriations bill for enactment of the legislative body.
The President has 15 days following the opening of the regular session of Congress within which to submit his budget proposal.
Present during the signing were ranking officials of the Budget Commission headed by Budget Commissioner Faustino Sy-Changco.
Shortly before noon, the President received a delegation from the Taxicab Operators Association headed by its president, Philip Monserrat, which petitioned their inclusion in the roll-back of prices of regular gasoline, as decreed by the Price Control Council.
The taxi operators explained that their companies have their own gasoline stations but had not been included in the ruling recently promulgated by the PCC regulating the prices of petroleum products.
The President referred their petition to Secretary of Commerce and Industry Ernesto Maceda, acting chairman of the council.
Later, the President received Donald M. Graham, board chairman of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company, who came to pay his respects. Graham arrived in Manila in the course of a tour of branch offices and agent banks of his organization in the Far East.
Accompanied by Secretary of Finance Cesar E. A. Virata, Graham’s group included N. Joel Smith, vice president for the Far East and Paul Niemantsverdriet, the bank’s representative in the Philippines.
Other callers were provincial delegations which apprised the President on local problems.
In. a speech read for him by Dr. Pacifico E. Marcos at the opening program of the BSP Northern Luzon Jamborette at Bacnotan, La Union in the morning, the President said the authentic way to a “meaningful reformation” is by a democratic revolution, a revolution fought not with arms but with convictions, and through the assertion of the will and ideas.
The President stressed further that the people who are in the best position to wage this revolution are the youth, whom he described as “the biggest, most active and most articulate members of our society.”
He also added that majority of the country’s young men and women are prepared to renew their world in the libertarian manner.
As in the positive approach of scouting to citizenship and nation-building, the President said, these young men and women “see not only the shortcomings but the beat features of our society. They see not only the sins but the potentials of our system.”
“They would rebuild their society in the manner of builders and engineers and not in the fashion of warriors who know only the poser of force”.
“The ethic of boy scouting is to effect change in a peaceful manner, to wage revolution the democratic way,” he concluded
emplaced them atop the Engineering Bldg. and the Arts and Sciences Bldg.
I expect that this is but a lull in the effort of the communists to create a revolutionary situation. There may be quiet now, as was seen in the demonstration of 5,000 KM [Kabataang Makabayan] and striking drivers this afternoon at Plaza Bustillos—but the plans are there to create disorder.
Early this morning (3:00 AM) the engineering building behind the capitol of Laoag, Ilocos Norte was blown up by dynamite. And fire consumed the commercial center of Vigan, Ilocos Sur.
Intelligence reports are to the effect that the communists and subversives will now go into sabotage with explosives.
QCPD [Quezon City Police District] has started to file criminal cases against the UP radicals from murder to coercion.
We are encouraging our loggers to desist from cutting our forests but to turn to mining instead, specially of marble.
If they must continue to log, we are asking them to transfer their operations to Indonesia where they can still get good logging concessions.
I have ordered Greg [Gregorio] Licaros to do away with the technicalities of opening an LC for exports of cement (which sells for $2 a bag while it sells at P4.80 here or less than one dollar), plywood, GI [galvanized iron] sheets and structural steel. Exports will be through the National Export Trading Corporation and since the rupiah is now freely convertible to dollars, the PNB could supervise this.