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These programs range form lecture-visits and student-discussion/meetings with such Foundation guests as United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
FEAR REIGNED for the larger part of the campaign. In a style that has become far too common on the island, the state-hooders employed defamatory tactics, accusing Governor Rafael Hernandez-Colon and his Popular Democratic Party of rebuffing the United States and pursuing a separatist ideological course. Under the leadership of Dr. Pedro Rosello, the prostatehood New Progressive Party unleashed a campaign of fear, aimed at equating the "Si," or affirmative response, with a vote of confidence to the governor for an additional term as well as an increase in crime, drug-addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, unemployment, social upheaval...
Offering the referendum, no one doubts, was politically motivated. Governor Hernandez-Colon's stakes for issuing it were very high on a personal as well as partisan level. He knew that losing would mean his political death and gravely weaken the Popular Democratic Party. But he had no reason to expect defeat and was pressured to assert the validity of the commonwealth option as an alternative to statehood...
...Harvard Foundation initially planned a speech with the current governor of Puerto Rico, Rafael Hernandez-Colon, on Wednesday. That speech was cancelled because the governor is ill, but organizers said they plan to reschedule it. Hernandez-Colon is a major supporter of the commonwealth movement...
...Hernandez-Colon will be followed by former Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo, a strong advocate of statehood, and Ruben Berrios Martinez, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party...