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...Rich and Famous, starring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset, were called home from Manhattan. MTM Enterprises, which had finally been persuaded to shoot an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati in Cincinnati, was forced to stop after only two days. "It took us three years to get them here," wailed Mari Barnum, Ohio firm bureau manager. "If we run into weather problems after the strike is over, the whole thing goes down the drain." Some feature films have already been canceled. The only ones now shooting are those, like On Golden Pond and Ragtime, whose producers agreed beforehand to whatever terms...
...setup that was meant to be a lesson to others," declared Senator Miguel Hernández Agosto, head of the island's once ruling Popular Democratic Party. "The Governor planned it all. It was part of a systematic plan to wipe us out," charged Socialist Leader Juan Mari Bras...
...PAST, Puerto Rican voters have consistently chosen some form of association, with the United States. In the gubernatorial elections this coming fall, Ruben Berrios of PIP and Juan Mari Bras of PSP will both run, but they will probably poll together less than 10 per cent of the vote. Governor Hernandez Colon of the Popular Democratic Party will run against Carlos Romero Barcelo, mayor of San Juan and head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP). The PNP derives its support mainly from conservatives in the middle and upper classes, though it appeals to all those who want Puerto...
Despite the island's difficulties, the independentistas are still meeting a lot of sales resistance. Down in Mosquitos, Manny San-tel and his neighbors grimace and shake their heads at the mention of Mari Bras. In Ponce, a long cement workers' strike was settled when an anti-Communist union won an election...
...this atmosphere, it is hard to take seriously Mari Bras' prediction that the issue of Puerto Rico's relations with...