Word: marin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, a green sedan rolled into the palm-shaded cobblestone square before San Juan's Fortaleza, the 300-year-old residence of Governor Luis Mufioz Marin. Out of the car burst six members of Puerto Rico's desperate little Nationalist Party. Armed with pistols, rifles and a machine gun, they sprinted for the palace entrance. Yelling "Viva Puerto Rico libre," one Nationalist got off a wild submachine-gun burst. From the arcade, from parapets, from rooftops, guards poured fire down on the attackers...
Puerto Rico's internal troubles are not expected to prevent Luis Muno`s Marin, governor of the island, from delivering the Godkin lectures in April, Dean Mason said last night...
Although Puerto Rico will hold an important referendum next June on drawing up a constitution, Marin expects to keep his appointment here. Announcing that the governor would give the lecture series, Mason said that he has been in close contact recently with Marin, and that Marin had not changed his mind on coming...
...Marin is the first man to be elected governor; he took office in 1948. During this present nationalist insurrection, revolutionaries have made at least one attempt on his life...
Governor Luis Munoz Marin declined to specify the nature of the charges against the president of the Nationalist Party, a violently anti-United States group...