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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...
...show was over. Mufioz Marin soberly took note of the "tragic and useless" death of 31 Puerto Ricans. Said he: "A government founded on votes cannot be destroyed." Albizu Campos and his diehards had been joined, he said, only by the island's Communists, ready as always to promote chaos. Albizu Campos himself faced trial on charges of attempted murder and insurrection against the Puerto Rican government...
...Marin called out the National Guard. In scores of sharp, bloody little battles, the guardsmen hunted down the terrorists with bazookas, tanks and planes. Desperate and determined as they were, the rebels were no match for the soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers...
Defiance & Tear Gas. The attempted assassination of President Truman brought swift action from Mufioz Marin. Crying "This is lunatic gangsterism," he ordered Albizu Campos brought in at all costs. Police threw tear gas into Albizu's beleaguered headquarters. From the balcony, Albizu waggled a soiled white towel on the end of a broom in token of surrender...
...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...