Slept at Looc Cove at 10:00 PM. Woke up at 4:00 AM. Went fishing at 5:00 AM up to Natipoan Bat along the Batangas coast.
No fish up to 7:00 AM. But the mountains and the sea were ethereal in the soft early dawn as well as the sunrise later on. Reminded me of my youth when we used to go hunting and the war years up in the mountains. Nostalgic.
Official Gazette for June 3, 1973: THE PRESIDENT promulgated a presidential decree amending the law on geodetic engineering to enable undergraduates to qualify as land reform surveyors in the massive land reform program. In issuing the decree, the President said he was anticipating the need for thousands of surveyors with land reform going full blast and Masagana 99 rice production program underway in 600,000 pilot hectares. Under Republic Act 4374, a five-year course is prescribed for students interested in the broad field of geodetic engineering. However, since the enactment of the law in 1965, the number of those pursuing the study of geodetic engineering has dwindled.
THE PRESIDENT issued Special Decree No. 196 converting the Nueva Vizcaya Agricultural College in Bayombong into the Nueva Vizcaya State Institute of Technology. The new decree also expands the school’s curricular programs in technology pursuant to a provision in the new Constitution that all educational institutions shall aim to develop scientific, technological and vocational efficiency. The institute shall primarily provide higher vocational, professional and technical instructions and trainings in agricultural and industrial fields. It shall also promote research, advanced studies and progressive leadership in the fields of agriculture, including agricultural education and home technology, fishery, forestry and industrial education.
MARTIAL LAW has not changed the country’s foreign policy which stress the strengthening of ties with Southeast Asian countries and the broadening of relations with Socialist countries and Western Europe. Secretary of Foreign Affairs Carlos P. Romulo made the statement in an interview during “The DPI Report”, a multi-network television program. Taking a look at the future course of the Philippine foreign policy of the New Society, Secretary Romulo said “the general relaxation of tensions, with particular reference to Asia, is likely to present us with new problems.” Our duty is to anticipate developments and make the inevitable adjustments in the light of our perceived interests and in accordance with the interests of the region,” he stressed. In this connection, the foreign affairs chief said the country is in the process of establishing new bases for a more balanced relationship with the United States.
INFORMATION Secretary Francisco S. Tatad equated the future of the country with the vision and dedication of its scientists, and saw for these “gifted men, who often have to contend with neglect and indifference,” the dawn of a brighter day. “The light that shows in the hand of progress will have to be that of science always,” Secretary Tatad told the Mathematical Society of the Philippines at its meeting at the Columbian Club. “The scientist’s laboratory is after all, where one builds the roads to the unknown, and there, the politics of men and nations is reduced to insignificance.” He assured, however, that “beginnings are being made” in the Philippines to upgrade its regard for the scientist. “It will require a sustained effort for such beginnings to grow into a program that will ensure maximum support and protection to our men of science, but so long as good sense guides the policies of government the growth of such a program will be assured.”
INSURANCE Commission has tagged the Integrated Motor Vehicle Owners, Inc. as an illegal insurance firm. Due to the mounting complaints received by the IC and the Department of Justice, the Department of Finance warned the public against the illegal activities of the Quezon City-based firm. According to a report submitted by Insurance Commissioner Gregoria Cruz Arnaldo to Finance Secretary Cesar E. A. Virata, the company issues certificates of membership to operators of public utility vehicles. Commissioner Arnaldo said that the certificates are issued through the firm’s managing agent or attorney-in-fact under which a certificate of financial assistance is extended in the form of payment of claims of third parties against the member-operators in return for monthly fees.
Skied from 8:00 AM to 1:30 AM [sic]. Although I went to the water to ski four times, I have learned to slalom with the help of Romualdez Vildins, the Southeast Asian championship who is a master on skis.
Startled to rain at 2:00 PM. Returned to Manila arriving at 4:30 PM where the First Lady met us. Heard mass at 5:00 PM.
I have ordered the sending of rice and corn warehouses and arrested hoarders and rice manipulators. 13 have been arrested. They are the biggest traders and millers.
And I have ordered more C-130 planes as well as authorized the lease-purchase of our other planes, thus earning their price in two years. This we can do as the U.S. government is giving us in the form of Military Assistance 16 C-123 cargo planes, 8 in a few days.
I have chosen the M-16 Colt with the Elitest as manufacturer. I attach the papers.
Commander Felman and R. Salas have been captured. These are the men close to Sen. B. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.].
I have decided to keep the MIA [Manila International Airport] at its present site for at least ten years more. So we build another runway.