Word: 51st
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...realization of their objectives. I do not think this will be the solution, however, and so the conflict will continue. If the U.S. insists on keeping alive a racist Jewish state, our countersuggestion would be to create a Jewish state within U.S. boundaries, giving it the status of the 51st state...
...language issue is linked by some Puerto Ricans to the campaign to make the island America's 51st state. Rossello is pro-statehood, and so is a majority of the legislature. Carlos Romero-Barcelo, Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the U.S. House of Representatives, has only limited voting rights in that body, and he calls the new law a step toward full representation. Says Romero: "We in Puerto Rico want to be viewed as citizens...
...TIMING OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT -- THE 51ST ANniversary of Pearl Harbor -- was appropriate. NBC disclosed that this will be the last season for Cheers, the network's top hit and one of the most successful comedies in TV history. The show's producers decided to close the fictional Boston bar after 11 years...
...Like those who want to subdivide California, many citizens in other states think they'd be better off without their big cities, high taxes or state governments. In Kansas, 10 southwestern counties hope that parts of neighboring Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado will join them in founding a 51st state. Since Kansans in the rebellious counties voted 9 to 1 in favor of the idea earlier this month, local officials have been working on a new constitution and planning a convention in September. Similar talk still festers from Alaska to the Michigan peninsula. Why bother throwing the rascals out when...
...south snobbery, Californians who can't get along often talk about cutting the state in half. Usually they imagine a line midway, somewhere around Monterey. But Stan Statham, a Republican assemblyman from far-north Redding, wants more radical surgery. He would draw the border above Sacramento for a new 51st state called Northern California. But that would leave most of the state's economic hubs -- including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley -- in the new state to the south. Hey Stan, whose side...