On board the 777
waiting for the children.
We go to Talaga, Limbones
and Sangley Pt. to check
on the facilities.
Conference with the Moslem leaders. First on exclusive meeting with the outstanding leaders then at 1:00 PM a meeting with all the about 200 leaders, the biggest group to meet since the establishment of the Republic.
I explained:
- That the reason the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] was sent to Sulu and Basilan as well as Zamboanga del Sur was the report of foreign troops or foreign-trained armed men attacking the PC [Philippine Constabulary] and Marine detachments.
- That one of the most sacred of our duties is to protect our territory which was handed
Official Gazette for January 2, 1973: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE Commission has reported that 2,664 corporations with subscribed and paid up capital of P650, 467,325 and P282 943 780 respectively, and 1,467 partnerships with a total capital of P68, 250,054 were registered in 1972. SEC Commissioner Arcadio E. Yabyabin said that there was an increase of P62.639.574 or 28.4 per cent in paid capital of corporations registered .in 1972, compared to 9.0 304,206 total paid up capital of 2,283 corporations registered in 1971. He also emphasized that the number of corporations registered in 1972 was 381 more than that of 1971.
TAXPAYERS WHO have been issued tax account numbers (TAN) should use the same number in getting their residence certificates from municipal and city treasurers. The BIR warned that taxpayers who secures another TAN, in spite of the fact that they have earlier been issued such number, will be penalized by a line of not more than P300 or imprisonment of not more than six months. The BIR advised tax payers to keep their TAN because these are permanent, and they will use these numbers in all transactions with the government and with private corporations.AN INCREASE BY as much as P500 million in revenue collections in Fiscal Year 1972-1973 was predicted by Finance Secretary Virata after reviewing the improvements in the tax collection machinery and the /administrative setup of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs. Expressing optimism over a greatly improved collection this year, Secretary Virata said that the BIR is expected to collect P300 million more in taxes while the Bureau of Customs is expected to collect P200 million more.
PROVINCIAL AND CITY medical care councils were authorized to do spot-checking of medicare patients in hospitals. In a resolution, the Philippine Medical Care Commission directed the scrutiny of clinical records of medicare patients, including those who have already checked out. Under certain circumstances, the spot-checking may include interviews with patients. This authority given to the local arms of the PMCC is a kind of preventive measure against possible abuse of the Medicare Program and a protection to beneficiaries who should really get the benefits. The spot-checking will also find out whether the admission of a medicare patient is justified or the laboratory examinations given him and the medicines prescribed for him are those which are necessary only in relation to his illness or for his recovery.
PRESIDENT MARCOS enlisted the help of the largest aggroupment of Muslim leaders in Mindanao to bring back to the fold of the law the insurgents who had taken to the hills, with the promise of selective amnesty. The Muslim leaders belonging to various warring political and factional groups who called at Malacañang pledged to bury then-past differences. They unanimously adopted a resolution reposing their trust and confidence to the President.
down to us by our heroic forbears. And it would be cowardly if after having received evidence of the entry into Philippine territory of alien troops or armed men supporting such alien troops we do nothing to drive them out or eliminate them.
This they understood as they are warriors at heart.
3. That now the fighting has become confused because even innocent civilians who may because of kinship, sympathy or even accident have become involved in the fighting,
4. And it is not the policy of government or of my administration to fight or kill Muslims. For they are our brothers.
I am descended from Muslims. So my heart is with you.
So long as I am President, the powers of the Presidency shall be used to protect you, to help you, to save you and not to destroy you.
5. All parties seem to have committed mistakes. Let us now correct those errors. Let us forgive each other and start anew as brothers to build a strong nation.
6. I, therefore, offer selective amnesty. I ask you to go back to the hills and bring my message to our brothers who have gone into hiding. Bring them back to the fold of the law. Tell them it is I who appeal to them. Use my name.
I direct the military to give you facilities and protection to accomplish your mission.
7. In Basilan since 90% of the insurgents are alleged squatters driven out by the loggers (Weyher-hauser and Western Mindanao Timber Co., Sen. Magnolia Antonio) then I direct the Sec. of Agriculture to reclassify the lands that have no forests into alienable and disposable lands and grant them to the actual occupants thereof.
Withdraw all the charges of squatting. Study the cancellation of the logging licenses.
8. I order the resumption of trade and barter between Sulu and the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Free markets must be established in Jolo town and Zamboanga City. Limit of trade per merchant P5,000 a month.
9. Zamboanga Airport will be converted into an alternate International Airport and we should attract tourists into Zamboanga and Jolo.
10. Banks should be established in all provinces. In Sulu for the small Filipino traders so that aliens (the Chinese) will not control the trade.
11. I now order the full implementation of the policy of Investments, both agricultural and industrial, to be funneled to South of the typhoon belt, which means Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan.
Economic coordinators recommended Vice Pres. Boransing and Saber of MSU [Mindanao State University], Dr. Majul, Dir. Ancheta.
The Armed Forces will now implement their civic action program; set up model barrios and help the citizenry instead of killing them.
The truth is that economic development trade or civic action nor amnesty would not be effective if the Muslim outlaws and insurgents had not felt the force of the strength of the AFP—the artillery (105 howitzers, recoil-less rifles 103’s, mortars 81mm and 4.2), the APC’s [armored personnel carrier], the navy guns and the air bombardment with the rockets as well as the rangers
and marines.