Woke up late and conferred on the PC [Philippine Constabulary] control of the towns of San Fernando, Balaoan and PC supervision of Bauang. All these without publicity.
We had Lt. Col. [Ernesto] Kasintahan, PC Provincial Commander, Gov. Juvenal Guerrero, Cong. Jose Aspiras and Titing [Joaquin] Ortega, Sen. Magnolia Antonino, Mayor [Mauro Nicha] of Balaoan, the warring factions therein, Dir. Ledda and Board Member [Castor] Concepcion, Mayor [Antonio] Aquino of San Juan, Mayor [Romeo] de Guzman of Bauang and the Gallardo Brothers [Aureo and Fernando].
There have been many killings in these towns lately. Dir. Ledda of Balaoan, the man of Sen. Antonino, has been keeping wanted criminals as his goons. One of them, Gambol, was killed while resisting arrest by Sgt. Sellona, the bodyguard of Bd. Member Concepcion.
Mayor [Lorenzo] Dacanay of San Fernando whom I called by long distance to inform him of my decision to place his town under PC control, has been importing sacadas from Ilocos
Official Gazette for March 13, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS issued an executive order reconstituting the Institute of National Language with a membership representing the major native languages.
In his order, the President stressed the necessity of reconstituting the INL “to facilitate and enhance the effective propagation and development of the national language and to actively involve all linguistic groups in this nationalistic endeavor.”
The reconstituted INL is composed of Director Ponciano B. P. Pineda (Tagalog), chairman; and the following members: Dr. Lino Q. Arquiza (Cebuano)., Dr. Nelia C. Casambre (Hiligaynon), Dr. Lorenzo Ga. Cesar (Samar-Leyte), Dr. Ernesto Constantino (Ilokano), Dr. Clodualdo H. Leocadio (Bikol), Dr. Juan Manuel (Pangasinan), Dr. Alejandro Q. Perez (Pampanga), Dr. Mauyag M. Tamano (Tausog and Cultural Minority Languages).
Assistant Director Fe Aldave-Yap was named secretary and executive officer of the institute.
Having no scheduled callers, the President attended mostly to his office work. However, toward noon, he received a delegation of La Union officials, who called to discuss local problems.
In the group were Sen. Magnolia W. Antonino, Reps. Jose D. Aspiras and Joaquin Ortega, Gov. Jovenal K. Guerrero, Mayors Antonio Aquino of San Juan, Romeo de Guzman of Bauang, and Mauro Nicha of Balaoan; Board Member Castor Z. Concepcion, Engineers Aureo Gallardo and Fernando Gallardo, and Col. Ernesto Kasintahan, PC provincial commander.
In the afternoon, the President again concentrated on his desk work, during which he issued orders suspending a municipal judge and a city health officer from office for three months without pay.
Suspended were Municipal Judge Antonio Rodriguez of Las Piñas, Rizal and Dr. Augusto Jornales, city health officer of Canlaon City.
Judge Rodriguez was found guilty of failure to resolve a criminal, case on consented abduction within the 90-day period prescribed by law, and for erroneously dismissing said case over which he had no jurisdiction except to conduct a preliminary investigation.
Pr. Jornales, on the other hand, was found guilty by a special investigator of violating a Department of Health order when he sold to patients medicines allegedly left to him by a drug agent on consignment.
The only other activity he had was a press conference held at about 5 PM
Sur. And his policemen have been pointed to as the triggermen in several killings including that of three men inside the municipal building of San Juan.
And they have been beating up the men of the Gallardos whom he suspects of having ambushed his men.
Mayor Dacanay also suspects Mayor de Guzman, Gov. Guerrero, Cong. Aspiras and almost everybody else of conspiring against him.
I strongly suspect that the strangers carrying firearms seen in some towns and stealing cattle, pigs and chicken from the farms are NPA men foraging. We have taken counter-measures.
Saw the movie “Waterloo” which depressed me as I saw Napoleon lose his last battle from a stomach ache.
Then had a press interview at 4:00 PM.
Played golf from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
We are now at the dining table after a heavy dinner of chicken curry by [Fernando] Pandot Ocampo surprisingly posing as an architect but actually a culinary expert. Am drowsy from eating too much.
Am reorganizing the Medical Board of Examiners because the chairman of this board is charged with corruption.
This weekend I intend to finish the appointments to the old salas of the CFI [Court of First Instance] and the PVTA [Philippine Virginia Tobacco Administration].
Ricky Cu-Unjieng tells me that in a class get-together of La Salle, he heard Doy [Salvador] Laurel commenting that at the rate we are going there will be no elections in 1971 or 1973.
I just received the contingency plan for POL (Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants) products which I ordered the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] and DND [Department of National Defense] to make.
Am waiting for the rest.