Golf from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM at Fort Aguinaldo.
Conference with Alfonso Lim of Taggatt Sawmills and Plywood at Claveria, Cagayan as well as Cong. [Roque] Ablan [Jr.] on Fuga Island 13,000 ha. with 4,000 heads of cattle and an airstrip of 1,300 meters, plenty of fresh water at 20 feet below the ground. Barit is about 600 hectares and Magbal 250 hectares. This is adobe with about a half of it thick with trees. Fish abounds in the area. Fuga already has a beach house and Intercontinental is ready to develop a small part of it into a tourist spot.
Then conferred with [Antonio] Tony Floirendo of Tadeco [Tagum Agricultural Development Company, Inc.] and Sec. [Ernesto] Maceda of Commerce & Industry on some of his candidates for delegate.
Finalized with Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile and UnderSec. Jose Crisol the guidelines for handling the activists in the schools and universities. Cases must be built up of subversion if any. But the school and university administrations must first be asked to meet the threat of Maoism and Stalinism. So that the steps that we would take would be merely supplementary. And the government officials and employees must be told what they can do—tolerate arrogance or even vicious language but not intervention with due process or judicial process.
The [Henry] Byroade kidnap story is in the metropolitan newspapers. Asst. J-2 [Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence], Col. [Zosimo] Paredes, told the police who gave it to the press.
Official Gazette for September 13, 1970: President Marcos continued concentrating on desk work, and disposed of official papers brought to him by aides, as well as acted on reports, both from private and government entities.
Among the directives issued from his desk was for Secretary of Finance Cesar E. A. Virata to look into the reported importation into the country of a sizable quantity of remnants, in violation of Centra] Bank regulations. The entry of the remnants, said to be consisting, ofr.757 bales and worth $571,713.40, was brought to the President’s attention by Julio B. Francia, Jr., president of the Philippine Chamber of Industries. Steps considered include the outright seizure and destruction of the goods.In his directive to Secretary Virata, the President asked the finance secretary to take appropriate action on the case to protect’ the Philippine textile industry.