We spent the whole day on a cruise to Talaga Bay. Water-skiing. Wrote Bongbong. Rained on the way back. Read The Game of Nations and re-read my own book.
Then dinner for the Council of Bishops. Delivered an appeal for the cooperation of the church and state.
Official Gazette for January 30, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS put in a full measure of desk work by first of all designating the members of the Philippine delegation to the first meeting of the Association for Science Cooperation in Asia (ASCA), with Chairman Florencio A. Medina of the National Science Development Board as leader.
The President also vested the members of the delegation with full power and authority to meet and confer with their counterparts from other governments represented in the meeting, and who are invested with like power and authority.
Other representatives in the Philippine delegation are Dr. Juan Salcedo, Jr. of the National Research Council of the Philippines, Director General Apolinario Orosa of the Presidential Economic Staff, Mrs. Lefcicia Ramos Shahani of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Bienvenido Villavicencio of the National Economic Council, Jose Torres of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission, and Dominador O. Reyes who will also serve as adviser.
The President worked on his desk till late in the evening.
Miles Copeland. The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics. (1970).