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...Massachussetts Commonwealth will lose an estimated $16 million if all college students are exempted from the tax, and if the entire proposal to decrease the tax is passed the state will lose $51 million in revenue...
...contrast of wealth and poverty so apparent in most Latin American countries is less stark in Puerto Rico. Between the shacks and the skyscrapers lies a buffer zone of crackerbox concrete housing developments with a Volkswagen in every garage. Twenty years of industrial development as a self-governing commonwealth under American rule have created a large middle class whose veneer of prosperity conceals the extensive poverty that afflicts large sectors of the island's population...
...looking to stay close to Mo Udall on Tuesday," one Birch Bayh organizer said over the weekend. In pursuit of this goal, the Indiana senator has spent the last three days crisscrossing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in search of the hand to be shaken and the vote...
...their conclusions, persists. Moreover, the Public Interest conservatives refuse to identify their cause with the status-anxious "little man," which Rightists from the late Tom Watson to George Wallace have attempted to do. Befitting high-level academics--Daniel Patrick Moynihan is among the contributors to "The American Commonwealth, 1976"--theirs is an elitist rightism. Like John Adams, the traditionalist of colonial days, they seem to have no greater fear than that of King...
...voters have consistently gone the other way. The independentistas boycotted the last plebiscite on status, in 1967; the voters then divided 60.4% for commonwealth, 39% for state hood and .6% for independence. In the 1972 general election, the Puerto Rican Independence Party (P.I.P.) got just...