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...island's voters in this month's election. They turned out of office Governor Luis Ferré, 68, an advocate of statehood, and installed in his place Rafael Hernández Colón, 36, a handsome and articulate supporter of Puerto Rico's 20-year commonwealth ties to the United States...
...Democrats after their 1968 loss. A lawyer from Ponce, the island's largest city after San Juan, he assumed leadership of both the party and the Senate in 1969 with the tacit approval of Luis Muñoz Marín, founder of the party, architect of the commonwealth agreement and, more than anyone else, father of modern-day Puerto Rico. This year Muñoz campaigned for his protégé. Hernández reorganized the Popular Democratic Party from top to bottom, replacing older leaders with new, fresh faces...
During his campaign, Hernández argued for the continuance of the commonwealth on the grounds that it not only provided relief from U.S. taxes but also served as a "great retaining wall" that protected the island's Spanish culture from U.S. influence and domination. Yet he did not hesitate to employ-as did Ferré-mainland political techniques during the campaign. Both candidates hired consultants from Washington and taped endless television and radio spots. Hernández traded in his baggy suits for more modish styles and submitted to the shears of San Juan's leading hair...
...frustration came out this week outside a Republican fund-raising dinner held in Boston to honor Pat Nixon. In the largest local antiwar action since the May 1971 attempt to shut down the JFK Federal Building, 8000 demonstrators confronted 300 riot-equipped Boston police outside the Commonwealth Armory. Where the dinner was held. The choreography was depressingly familiar on both sides of the skirmish line...
...Legislature voted earlier this year to abolish PR, even though Cambridge is the only city in the Commonwealth that uses it. Mahoney attached an ammendment to the bill that would have allowed Cambridge to vote on the issue directly. But the matter became academic when the courts ruled the statute unconstitutional...