Have just met at 10:10-11:15 PM with [Alfredo] Piding Montelibano [Sr.] and [Roberto] Bobby Benedicto. Asked Piding to call [Eugenio] Heny Lopez [Jr.], Oscar Lopez and the Vice President on the viciousness and license of the personal attacks against me by the Manila Chronicle and the ABS-CBN. The columnists of the newspaper claim it is the editorial policy. And ABS-CBN gives free time to the KM [Kabataang Makabayan] and communists thinking they can buy insurance.
He asked that PNB [Philippine National Bank] guaranty the purchase by SPCMA [Sugar Producers’ Cooperative Marketing Association, Inc.] of the Esso fertilizer for $22.8 million and $26 million dollars worth of shipping in bulk as the fertilizer plant
Official Gazette for June 14, 1970: President Marcos laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Fort Bonifacio to mark the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Bessang Pass. Arriving at 8 a.m. with Commodore Santiago Nuval (retired), who fetched him at Malacañang, the President was accorded military honors by the Philippine Army composite battalion, including a 21-gun salute. After the floral offering the President proceeded to the PA Officers’ Club where he had breakfast with the officers of the USAFIP-NL and their guests.
The President motored back to Malacañang to receive Japanese and Indonesian Ambassadors Toshio Urabe and Kusno Utomo who paid a courtesy call. Then, the President proceeded to the Maharlika Hall to attend the convention and election of officers of the USAFIP-NL, during which he was reelected national commander. A luncheon with his comrades during the Battle of Bessang Pass followed the convention.
Other officers elected at the USAFIP-NL were: Commodore Santiago Nuval, 1st vice commander; Gov. Juvenal Guerrero, 2nd vice commander; Robert Arnold, 3rd vice commander; Ambrosio Peña, national adjutant; Jose Lizardo, finance officer; Dominador Prudencio, national auditor; Paulino Rivera, national chaplain; COMELEC Commissioner Lino Patajo, judge advocate; Dominador Lapuz, national inspector, and General Segundo Velasco, Fernando Reyes, Tancredo Guray, Antonio Sanz, Generoso Salazar, Zosimo Paredes, Honrado Tensico, Juan Valeros, Carlos Lardizabal, Alejandro Dario and Eficio Acosta, directors. At the same occasion, the President signed the appointment of Generoso Salazar as member of the Board of Directors of the Philippine Veterans Bank.
After his reunion with his comrades, the President had a brief rest and later on worked on official papers until early evening.
Shortly before 7 p.m., the President, accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos, left Malacañang for the Manila Hotel where he was guest of honor and speaker at the opening of the Project Tulungan Training Seminar and the induction of the council members of the National Social Action Council.In his remarks, the President called Project Tulungan “a project of love,” involving private citizens who have volunteered their services under the National Social Action Council, headed by Bishop Mariano Gaviola.
The President said the awakening of private citizens, civic organizations and churches of all sects to the social and economic problems of the country is a heartening sign. The spirit must be strengthened, he said, so that apathy and indifference, which have widened the gap between the rich and the poor, may be banished from the country. The President said that the spirit of volunteerism, as exemplified in Project Tulungan, is a trait Filipinos can be proud of because it is in our nature to be of help to the less fortunate. The idea of Bayanihan or of giving without expecting any reward is basically a Filipino trait, the President said.
would need 250,000 tons annually of potash and phosphate from abroad on which they could give a charter party. I insisted that Bobby organize a separate corporation.
He also asked that I agree to the reclamation project of Republic Real Estate but I held this pending.
I have also just celebrated Bessang Pass with my comrades of the USAFIP, NL [United States Armed Forces in the Philippines, Northern Luzon] with wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a short speech at 8:00 AM then a convention lunch and another speech at the Maharlika Hall.
Tonight I launched the NASAC or the National Social Action Council chairmanned by Mons. [Mariano] Gaviola and the Project Tulungan of Imelda. This is a united action of the government, the ecumenical church and the private sector.