We have decided to test Bongbong II tomorrow at Caballo Island which is our testing ground for our rockets.
Rules for Trade with Red countries
Went through the programs on:
Official Gazette for March 11, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS had a three-hour conference with his advisers during which he started a thorough reassessment of the various development programs to establish funding priorities and insure increased national production.
Among the various programs and projects reviewed by the President with his advisers were the irrigation, school budding and highways programs, flood control systems, reclamation of Manila Bay area, rural improvement and the formation of cooperatives.
During the conference wherein Sen. Lorenzo Teves and Rep. Jose Alberto, chairmen of the appropriations committees of both chambers of Congress were present, the President:
1. Directed National Irrigation Administrator Alfredo Juinio to submit a comprehensive survey showing potential sources of water, how much money is needed, and how wide the area is to be irrigated;
2. Also directed that studies be made for the possible transfer of functions, personnel and equipment of the Irrigation Service Unit of the Department of Public Works and Communications to the NIA to prevent waste of funds and overlapping of functions;
3. Approved the request of the Presidential Arm on Community Development for the release of P1.6 million for communal irrigation projects;
4. Asked Secretary of Public Works and Communications David M. Consunji and Director of Public Works Alejandro Deleña to submit a report on the reclamation projects in the Liguasan marsh in Cotabato, Candaba swamps in Pampanga, and Tagum river in Davao, which will save thousands of hectares of land for cultivation;
5. Ordered that another 3,000 prefabricated Marcos-typo school buildings be included in the 16th year Reparations schedule and that a school building program be prepared. The President issued the directive when he was presented by Director Deleña a certification of the Department of Education that there is a need for an additional 88,000 more school rooms.
6. Also concurred with Sen. Teves’s proposal that a bill lie pro-pared imposing a two per cent tax on all real estate transfers in order to provide for a school building fund.
Present at the conference aside from Secretary Consunji, Director Deleña and Administrator Juinio, were Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., Budget Commissioner Faustino Sy-Changco, PACD Officer-In-Charge Rosendo Marquez, Director Alberto Virtucio and Commissioner of Public Highways Baltazar Aquino.
In the afternoon, the President did some desk work, during which lie signed an executive order establishing the policy guidelines on Philip pine trade with socialist and communist countries.
The order followed the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Rumania and Yugoslavia, which was unanimously recommended by the Foreign Policy Council last month.
Later in the day, the President announced he has authorized the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos, to make a six-day visit to the USSR as his personal representative.
The President said that he had given her the go signal to make the trip to Moscow to look into how the area of cultural cooperation between Manila and Moscow, which do not have diplomatic relations, might be expanded to mutually benefit the two countries, and their peoples.
At the same time, the President said that he has asked her to clarify with the Soviet officials standing feelers for economic cooperation, including reported proposals for soft-loans on vital industries and economic projects of the government.
- Irrigation
- Schoolhouse construction
- Highway and feeder roads
- Portworks
- Airports
- Flood control
- Reclamation of marshes
1. Liguasan, Cotobato
2. Tagum, Davao del Sur
3. Candaba
4. Alba