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...Hawaii went, Puerto Rico will not go. That seemed to be the message handed down by the 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...
...Hernández's easy victory surprised pundits and pollsters alike, who had thought the sometimes bitter race (four persons were killed in politically motivated brawls) too close to call. Yet Hernández won with a margin of 93,000 votes out of 1.2 million cast, while the Popular Democratic Party that he leads captured more than two-thirds of the seats in the legislature. The decisive results rebuffed not only "statehooders" but also those who argue for a complete break with the U.S. The island's Independence Party, which stirs some fears of Communist and socialist...
Then, in the meet's biggest upset, heavily favored Ed Nosal dropped to third place in the hammer behind the Tigers' Tom Ellis and Skip O'Hern...
...army to help keep an eye on the city's 519 prisoners. Northern hippies who came south for Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with hardened characters like Félix Radilla, wanted for 85 murders, and Constáncio ("Black Animal") Hernández García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food to eat, "protection" from the other prisoners, a few hours of privacy with a wife or girl friend. Many...
Preaching Hatred. The warning rumbles have been growing ever since the May election in which Paz won another four-year term over the bitter opposition of two erstwhile allies: former President Hernán Siles Zuazo, 50, and Juan Lechin, 51, leftist boss of Bolivia's tin miners. Siles has been packed off to exile in Uruguay. But Lechin is still around, preaching hatred and focusing Paz's opposition...