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Kansans aside, the primary is much involved with a uniquely Puerto Rican issue: statehood. Over nearly three dec ades of Commonwealth status, sentiment for making Puerto Rico the 51st state has grown steadily, and one recent poll put it at 55%. To boost that cause, the island's majority party, the New Progressive Party (P.N.P.), sponsored the 1977 legislation establishing the primaries, thus ending the custom of party leaders selecting convention delegates. "The primaries are a giant step toward promoting and achieving statehood," says Hernán Padilla, Republican Party executive vice president. "They take us into the direct...
...surprise that Beautiful-People Photographer Francesco Scavullo celebrated his 51st birthday at Manhattan's Studio 54, the tacky ex-TV studio that has been built into the Big Apple's most celebrated disco with the help of hype-hungry celebs. But why was his party so subdued? Why did Co-Owner Steven Rubell, 36, cross his wrists as though he were wearing handcuffs? Premonition, possibly. Two days later a federal judge, considering guilty pleas from Rubell and Partner Ian Schrager to charges of failing to pay $400,000 in taxes on income skimmed from disco receipts, hit them...
...situated land, which not only borders Afghanistan but also touches Iran and fronts on the Arabian Sea, is itself highly unstable, plagued by internal political and economic problems. While the U.S. and Pakistan at one time had such close ties that many Pakistanis referred to their country as the 51st state, relations have been chilly since the 1971 war with India over Bangladesh. The military regime in Pakistan has been angered by Carter's human rights campaign, and by Washington's refusal to provide military aid so long as Pakistan balked at renouncing nuclear weapons. The Administration began moving rapidly...
Some officials tried to relieve the pressure with gallows humor. Members of the Agriculture Department sent out invitations for a 51st birthday celebration, saying that "the party will be either for Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, or it will be for Bob Bergland." It turned out to be the former: Bergland kept his job. (So did another Cabinet member who had been widely rumored to be due for replacement, Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps.) On Capitol Hill, when Blumenthal returned from a break during a hearing before the House Budget Committee, a reporter cracked: "At least you came back." Replied...
...angry Jews invaded the Arab school in Sinjil, seized the principal and marched him to their settlement for "questioning." In the midst of this unrest, the Israeli government established a new "outpost"-the forerunner of a civilian settlement-at Nueima, northeast of Jericho. The settlement will be the 51st on the West Bank, where some 5,000 Jews are now living among 692,000 increasingly hostile Palestinians...