Messy time bringing Beth [Elizabeth Marcos-Keon] and Mrs. [Manuela] Ablan together. Beth like the irascible and high strung girl that she is started to quarrel with Mrs. Ablan on how poorly she was running the provincial government.
And I did not have the time to work out a gracious settlement as the provincial leaders were in Maharlika Hall where I had prepared lunch for them.
Spent the afternoon handing out public works releases—P200,000 for each congressman, P100,000 for each governor, P20,000 for each municipality, P2,000 for each barrio, P50,000 for each subprovince, P50,000 for each small city and P100,000 for each big city—and calamity funds.
With only 90 days from Aug. 12th to campaign and one half of this travel time, there is not much time for speech making. So the candidates must have to depend on the party organization.
We are updating the 10 leaders per precinct listing and the organization for each barrio.
Official Gazette for July 28, 1971: President Marcos received the 591-man Philippine contingent to the 13th Boy Scouts World Jamboree, who called at Malacañang in the morning to bid farewell before flying to Shizouka Prefecture, Japan for the world jamboree scheduled to be held August 2 to 10.
The President asked the contingent to act as ambassadors of goodwill for the Philippines, and help promote amity, understanding and friendship with other nations. The President told the contingent that they should be proud of their traditions “because most of the leaders of the country today have a background of scouting.” The President added that “we look forward to a system by which we can certainly train our young men and women along the ways not only of decency but of spiritual strength and the ancient virtues that: separate the old from the young, virtues that a scout holds dear.
The scouters were headed by Raymundo Crystal and Dominador B. Rañezes, head and deputy head of the BSP contingent, among others. They were accompanied to Malacañang by Antonio Delgado, vice-president for international affairs of the BSP and vice-chairman of the Boy Scout World Bureau.
After his meeting with the scouters, the President received provincial delegations led by local executives, who apprised him of problems of their constituents. Toward noon, the President repaired to the Malacañang Maharlika Hall, where he had a luncheon meeting with some 200 members of the NP National Directorate, including senators, representatives and some of the senatorial aspirants.
During the luncheon conference, the President inducted into the Nacionalista Party 19 former Liberal Party leaders, led by former Governor Gregorio Santayana of Quezon, deputy secretary-general of the LP; Vice Governor Virgilio Ramos of Zamboanga del Norte and Severo Abos of Abra, and Antonio Villanueva, chairman of the LP chapter in Ilocos Sur.
Time, Inc. is trying hard to settle the libel case out of court through Ike Belo who has made a special appearance in court.
And I have given instructions that there would be no settlement without a court judgment declaring the falsity of the statements made in the article.
We are still studying the libel case against the local media.
The Liberals has challenged Imelda to run for Senator in the next election to test her popularity. This apparently is the idea of Sen. Eva Estrada Kalaw, a woman who owes her political career to Imelda and me. In 1965, I practically forced the party to put her in as candidate and spent money for her in the campaign and made her win.
She has never been grateful for it. And she has been a petty fishwife.
Since she has been having an affair with Sen. [Jovito] Salonga another Liberal senator, she has been openly criticizing us.