I am all alone in the palace as Imelda has left for Leyte by boat,
The Liberals are imposing all kinds of conditions for their supposed cooperation but
Official Gazette for November 21, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS had no scheduled callers. Instead he focused on urgent desk work and other state business part of the morning and most of the afternoon.
The President approved the recommendation of the National Economic Council to import 200,000 metric tons of yellow corn to fill an expected shortage during the months of January, February and March.
The NEC had certified to an imminent shortage of 200,000 metric tons of this corn variety for the crop year ending June 30, 1972.
The NEC said that unless these importations were made to fill the expected shortage, prices of corn and corn products might become intolerable during the months of January, February and March 1972 and that the shortage “will be of such gravity as may constitute a national emergency.”
The NEC in its recommendation urged that such importations be made as much as possible through loans from the United States under US Public Law 480; that the imported corn be made available to small producers, corn starch manufacturers, feed millers and other industrial uses without discrimination; and that the same be used to stabilize the prices of local corn and corn products to fully benefit end-users.
Among other actions, the President ordered the troops assigned in Lanao del Norte to stay in place and to see to it that no incident mars the voting and the counting of votes during the special elections scheduled to be held in three towns on November 22.
The President issued the order to allay fears and apprehension earlier expressed in Manila by certain sectors of the media on an impending pullout allegedly because of threats of an armed attack from outlaw bands on the occasion of the election.
when I call them to a council meeting like the National Security Council and the Foreign Policy Council, they attend and agree to the plans.
So I intend to call a Development Council meeting where the economic and social development plans may be explained.
I am certain they will attend although they make all kinds of pretense at opposition in the press.
Tomorrow I work on the plan for the Army to take over Isabela from the PC [Philippine Constabulary]. Then I will work on the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] reorganization.
And in the evening I will be working on my new book on Modern Theories of Revolutionary Warfare.