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...miles out, as they tied Puerto Rican flags to the bow and played cat and mouse with Coast Guard ships patrolling the channel, the Rosas saw more than 15 other Vieques fishing boats slicing through the translucent blue water to join them. "This is the Borinquen I want to see," said Jose, using the indigenous name for Puerto Rico. "We're learning to stand up for ourselves, for once...
Many insisted they would return to protest. And some still defiantly wore their plastic handcuffs as they were ferried by fishermen back to the small island. They arrived to cheering crowds and celebratory flares. It's the kind of politics that Borinquen is learning to embrace...
Bombing Business. Some hotel owners are finally recognizing that room rates have been excessively high (as much as $60 per day for a single room, without meals). Governor Luis Ferré's brother José, who last year bought the troubled Darlington Hotel and renamed it the Borinquen, has cut rates by a third and appealed for middle-class and convention customers. Other hotels, including La Concha and Flamboyan, have posted their off-season rates sooner-and dropped them down further-than last year. They are offering double rooms for $21 to $26 a day, about $20 less than...
...chorus Miya Sama, Miya Sama. ... In the second place, the whole opera is exceedingly offensive to all Japanese because of its flippant treatment of their divine Mikado. . . . So let's not deprive ourselves of some fine entertainment and a chance to insult the Japs. . . . J. C. THOMPSON Borinquen Field...
...forbid Army officers in Puerto Rico to disclose what they have and have not there, what they plan to have for defense on the island. Before these restrictions went into effect last month, Army announcements had already summarized the forces then on the island. At huge, slowly building Borinquen Field on Puerto Rico's northwestern tip, there was one group of about 15 obsolescent medium bombers; at Ponce air base, near the south-central coast, there was an equal number of equally outmoded P36 pursuit planes. Planned and announced but not yet at their stations were three more bombardment...
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