MALACAÑANG
Manila
April 24, 1970
Malacañang
Gen. Lindbergh is here on the conservation of marine life. His son Jon Lindbergh is head of the U.S. Agency on Oceanography. With him is Theodore Pryor, head of the Foundation on Oceanography. Met them at 9:30 AM then attended the lunch for them where they tried durian and angolas which looked like worms but are eels.
They have come from the Taboli and Obo areas in Cotabato where Lindbergh spent eight days. Pryor is going there too. Both under the guidance of Manda Elizalde.
I am going to declare the Malampaya and Pangil bay estuaries as marine life sanctuaries if we can overcome the obstacles.
Oceanography should be studied more by our people.
And I have directed the Air and Water Pollution Commission to do something about the Pasig River which is now almost pure oil and waste.
J.V. Cruz, the Manila Times columnist and one of my most ardent supporters has suddenly turned against me and suggests that “something has snapped somewhere” and I have become “hysterical” and “govern by intimidation.
This is probably because I have not appointed him Ambassador to Bonn, Germany.