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...went off at the university, a third in a bakery, another apparently wrecked the control room of the giant, $20 million expropriated Shell Oil refinery. The worried regime narrowed its circle and last week more men were forced into jail, exile or ignominy. Among them: Major Humberto Sori Marin, Castro's first Agriculture Minister and chief justice of the war crimes trials-under house arrest; three Cuban diplomats in the U.S., including the alternate delegate to the Economic & Social Council of the Organization of American States-dismissed; Gustavo Hart, brother of Education Minister Armando Hart-defected to Venezuela...
...reprimand for his overzealous clergy, Puerto Rico's Roman Catholic Archbishop James P. Davis last week strategically retreated from the island's church v. state battleground. In a statement issued in Chicago Archbishop Davis declared that no Catholic who voted for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party would be subject to canonical penalties, thus flatly contradicting Puerto Rican priests who were prepared to deny the sacraments to those who had voted against church instructions until they confessed their...
...three Roman Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico got a stinging lesson: Puerto Rican voters hold to the mainland U.S. view on separation of church and state. Though 90% Catholic, and warned by a pair of pastoral letters that supporting Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democrats could lead to excommunication (TIME. Nov. 7), the voters gave well-liked Muñoz Marin 58% of the vote and a fourth straight term as Governor. Statehood Republican Candidate Luis Ferré trailed with 250,000 votes to 456,000 for Muñoz Marin. The church-backed Christian Action...
Over 80 per cent of the island's population, including Munoz himself, is Catholic, but fewer than one-fourth practice, and the power of the Church is relatively small. The Christian Action Party, formed this summer under unofficial Church sponsorship for the sole purpose of defeating Munoz Marin, won only 6.5 per cent of the popular vote...
...Munoz Marin's only non-religious opposition, the Statehood and Independence Parties, won together less than 34 per cent of the vote...