We are off the coast of southern Cotabato and will be docking at 5:00 AM to leave for the Dole Pineapple plantation for golf at 6:00 AM. Tee-off time is 7:00 AM. We go to the airfield, an hour’s drive away at 10:00 AM. I take off not later than 11:30 AM for Manila as I must meet with Ambassador Sani, personal representative of Indonesia Foreign Minister Adam Malik in Malacañang at 4:30 PM, conference with Cesar Virata at 5:00 PM on the program for the restructuring of our indebtedness and another conference outside at 6:00 PM.
Imelda and the children will sleep in Dole then return to Manila by boat. I hope to meet them half-way in Mactan.
Ambassador [Henry] and Mrs. [Jitka] Byroade are coming with me in the Fokker tomorrow.
Entry is mislabeled as April 6.
Official Gazette for May 6, 1970: President Marcos ordered that public hearings he conducted on the proposal of the National Power Corporation to increase its power rates. In a directive relayed to Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., the President instructed that a special committee be formed to conduct the public hearings. Secretary Melchor issued forthwith Executive Order No. 230, creating the special committee, with Cesar Zalamea, as chairman, and Juan Laya and Apolinario Orosa as members. The committee was given one month within which to submit its reports to the President.
The President, arrived in Gen. Santos City in the course of an inspection trip of the southern Philippines, after completing a tour of a number of towns, some of them island towns, in the Sulu archipelago. The President met with local officials to discuss urgent problems of the locality. A warm welcome was accorded the President and the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos, on their arrival in the city. Shortly after the simple welcome ceremonies, the President sat down with local officials to thresh out primary problems.
The President, who gave priority to a survey of development projects and the general situation in places he visited, planned to look over whatever government construction jobs are going on in the city, so he shall know first-hand what to do about problems encountered.
In a speech read for him by Secretary of Health Amadeo Cruz, at the opening of the 63rd annual convention of the Philippine Medical Association in Cebu City, the President urged wider and sustained public support for a comprehensive health care program the government has initiated and is committed to implement.
The President said that though the overall health situation in the country is good, there are still serious pockets of concern, due to the prevalence of residual diseases and uneven sanitation.
The need to uproot these problems, he said, “offers opportunities for action in both the government and private medical sectors of the nation.”
He asked the members of the PMA to consider the government program in this area and to give it its support. He noted that the PMA can be very effective, in the light of its past achievements in the same area, including the initiation of such projects as Medicare, rural health seminars and clinics, and health training programs.
The Ambassador and I have been able to work out some difficulties about the bases and the negotiations to come. So I am instructing Sec. [Felix] Makasiar to work out all the details.
And the resolution filed by Cong. A. [Antonio] Diaz of Zambales to request me to declare Admiral Lambert and other base officials as persona non grata I have asked to be stopped. Cong. Diaz has become a pompous impertinent tyrant according to Mayor [Amelia] Gordon of Olongapo.