Went to Sierra Lakes (Caliraya) yesterday for a day of skiing. Slashed my right thigh with the tow rope grip while turning left. The Dutch and Australian champions demonstrated the jump, tricking and slalom. Amazing skiing on one foot (barefoot) and turning.
The Jeddah meeting of the Islamic Conference started today. I have sent the delegation of Gov. [Simeon] Datumanong, Gen. [Mamarinta] and Com. [Hashim] Abubakar to convey the resolution of the Muslim leaders in Zamboanga that they cannot accept the supposed agenda for the meeting of the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] with the Phil. government.
We are trying to obtain the open support of the Indonesians, Malaysia and Pakistan in the conference by playing on their inherent fear of Arab intervention in their own internal affairs.
For the act of the Islamic Conference of setting down the form of government in Southern Philippines is intervention in our internal affairs. The entire proposed agenda smacks of dictation and humiliation. So the Muslim leaders have rightly rejected the agenda.
However, I believe it is Libya who is leading the interventionists alone. The others seem to be merely following Libya’s lead.
In the meantime I have ordered the pressure to be kept on the rebels on all fronts. The rebels have suffered heavily from the fighting.
I attach the Field Inspection Report of the Chief of Staff.
In the meantime there is no report about the investigation by USee. [Jose] Ingles of the Primitivo Mijares and Jack Anderson column incident.
The prices of our exports are slowly improving—specially sugar which is now 18 cents a pound FOB [free on board].
We have sold some (50,000 tons) at 25 cents per pound refined or 20 cents raw or centrifugal to Sheik Abdullah Darwish Fokroh [sic] [Fakhroo] but he has not opened the Letter of Credit.
And we sold futures (end of September up to one year thereafter) at 18 cents a pound to Filsam which is probably the broker for Westzucker of Germany. They have up to Thursday to put in the advance for the first 100,000 of $118,000 in cash deposit.
On the July 6, 1975 South China Morning Post appears the story, “Indira [Gandhi] takes leaf out of Marcos’ book.” Flattering.