Everything is happening today.
- Imelda broke ground for the National Art Center at Mt. Makiling this morning at 10:00 AM.
- Vice Pres. Spiro Agnew has resigned as Vice President in disgrace bargaining his office and honor for clemency and a light sentence in a criminal case of corruption while he was Governor of Maryland.
- Four young men headed by Armando Naval hijacked the BAC-III PAL [Philippine Airlines] plane from Davao to Manila, landed in Bacolod, Manila then Hongkong where because they would not be accepted anywhere they agreed to surrender if I gave them amnesty and safe conduct which I agreed to.
I attach the messages to me that are self-explanatory. - The USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] and US are beginning to intervene in the Middle East war. The USSR is undertaking a massive air lift of arms and
Official Gazette for October 11, 1973: THE PRESIDENT ordered the government’s active participation in oil exploration through an integrated program that shall spell out the national policy and the guidelines. Secretary of Information Francisco S Tatad at a briefing, disclosed that the Chief Executive directed the inter-agency committee, headed by the National Economic and Development Authority, to prepare a decree that shall define the powers and responsibilities of the appropriate agency for the purpose. The President also instructed the committee composed of chiefs of government agencies engaged in the energy development effort, headed by NEDA Director General Gerardo Sicat, to work out the details, proposals, changes and other matters concerning the energy development project.
THE PRESIDENT received the senior officers and officials of the Royal College of Defense Studies of London, who called to pay their respects to him following their arrival in Manila. The group, which is currently on an observation tour of the Far East, had been briefed about the local situation by officials of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and of National Defense. The Chief Executive told the group that the New Society is designed to remove and extripate the root causes of rebellion through a series of reforms—land reform, labor reform, educational reform, political reform, increased social services, peace and order, and economic reform. However, the .President said, until the various reform take root, the Philippines will not go back to any system which will allow the oligarchs or the rich to take over political leadership and corrupt the system all over again.
BUREAU of Internal Revenue ordered its agents to continue collecting amusement taxes on admission in places where the local governments have not yet passed appropriate ordinances imposing this tax. Acting Finance Secretary Pedro M. Almanzor said the amusement tax on admission is one of the three national taxes and fees transferred to the local governments as provided for by the Local Tax Code promulgated under Presidential Decree No. 231. Mr. Almanzor said that while the transfer of the amusement tax is supposed to take effect last October 1, the local governments cannot enforce collections of the same without the necessary ordinance enacted for the purpose. He added that in order not to disrupt tax collection functions, BIR collection agents shall continue collecting the amusement tax on admission until such time that ail the local governments shall have passed the necessary ordinances.
ammunition including surface to air missiles (SAMS) 2, 3 and 6 to the Arabs. And the Americans are sending 48 Phantoms to Israel.
This may escalate the war.