Word: mayaguez
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BORN: Oct. 24, 1943, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico EDUCATION: Dodge Vocational High School, diploma, 1961 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Staucet; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army Medical Corps, 1964-66 OCCUPATION: Public official POLITICAL CAREER: New York Assembly, 1975-90; sought Democratic nomination for Bronx borough president, 1985; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: 203 West 90th Street, Apt. 4B, New York...
...little experience with strange and difficult stories. He joined LIFE as a correspondent in China in 1948 and spent, in separate assignments, 15 years in Asia as bureau chief for LIFE and TIME in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Saigon. He covered the fall of Shanghai, the Korean War, the Mayaguez crisis and the fall of Saigon. In between, he ran LIFE bureaus in Rome, Bonn and Chicago and was national-affairs editor and assistant managing editor of LIFE. Among his many accomplishments at our sister publication was a pretty good personnel move: he trained a green kid named Henry Muller...
...Party, under incumbent Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, contends that only an "enhanced" version of commonwealth can protect the island's economy as well as its Hispanic culture. Judging by polls and street-corner opinion, Romero's statehood campaign today enjoys momentum. When the Popular Democrats staged a rally in Mayaguez, only 75 partisans showed up. Watching the Ponce parade, Luisa Rodriguez, an unemployed mother of seven, said, "I don't know if the North Americans want Puerto Rico, but the Puerto Ricans want a better form of life. If there is no statehood, I will move to Ohio. In Ohio...