Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates scheduled a second meeting for mid-December, when they hope to lay the foundations of a customs union, a joint investment bank, and perhaps a plan to save money by sharing ambassadors abroad. Though some talked hopefully of an eventual loose political commonwealth, no real union is in sight; the Ivory Coast, oil-rich Gabon and industrialized Senegal have no wish to share the burdens of their poorer brothers. But as the Premiers and Presidents congratulated each other last week in impeccable French, the strength of the common cultural tie was clear, and durable Premier Houphouet-Boigny emerged...
...last week, as controversy over the bishops' prohibition boiled across the island, the campaign at last had its issue: the separation of church and commonwealth. Aboard his campaign bus Muñoz toured the countryside to defend himself against the bishops. "The day you begin to follow the political orders of the clergy," he cried, "that day you will lose your freedom." Muñoz pointed out that the legality of birth control, one of the bishops' points of protest, was established in 1937 by the Statehood Republicans, not by his Popular Democrats...
...governorship. Like other Latin Americans, Puerto Ricans traditionally make a sharp distinction between religion and politics, and cannot be expected to desert Munoz for the bishops. What is likely to cost Muñoz more votes is the old statehood question. For all the maneuverings in favor of commonwealth status (which gives Puerto Rico the advantages of being part of the U.S. without federal taxation), the statehood vote is growing. In 1956, the Statehood Republicans polled 172,000 votes. This year the experts predict a 60% jump to 275,000 or more...
...addition to the national issues the Boston rally will urge specific proposals to fight discrimination in the Commonwealth, including political and financial strengthening of the Massachusetts State Commission Against Discrimination...
Ward said yesterday that he considered the expansion of "great private institutions" to be "in the commonwealth's interest...