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Eyes Write. In Marin County, Calif., a Fort Baker Army Post personnel clerk received a document, initialed it, passed it on to his supervisor, promptly got it back with a note reading: "This document did not concern you. Please erase your initials and initial the erasure...
...Certain Arrogance." While Pérez Jiménez and his cronies got rich from graft and his cops gunned down A.D. members, Betancourt traveled and talked at length and at leisure with the democrats of the hemisphere: Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June 23, 1958), President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (under Franklin Roosevelt) Adolf A. Berle Jr. He lingered over garlicky meals in modest Manhattan restaurants, analyzed what had gone wrong. After nine years of wandering and pondering, he decided that...
...Governor's Shame. The U.S. Government also backs Betancourt-a 180° change of opinion. During Pérez Jiménez' reign, the U.S. pinned the Legion of Merit on the dictator and regarded Exile Betancourt as a troublemaking embarrassment. In 1955 Governor Muñoz Marin of Puerto Rico invited President Figueres of Costa Rica to a meeting in Puerto Rico, where Betancourt, a good friend of both, was then living. The State Department's chief for Latin American Affairs, Henry Holland, hastily got Muñoz Marin on the telephone. He insisted that...
Governor Luis Muñoz Marin likes to think that Puerto Rico's commonwealth relationship to the U.S. is "like a tree; it may grow, but not into any other kind of tree." Last week the signs were that, despite Muñoz Marin's eloquent opposition. the kind of tree into which the commonwealth will one day grow is statehood...
...nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...