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After 28 years of uninterrupted victories, Puerto Rico's ex-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party found defeat hard to take...
When Luis Alberto Ferré, 64, a wealthy, M. I. T. -trained engineer, defeated the PTJ.P. candidate for the governorship two weeks ago, Muñoz waited a week to wish him luck. The 70-year-old statesman also held a post-election press conference to point out the error of Ferré's political ways. Luis Negrón López gave out a premature victory statement early on Election Night, when he was 15,000 votes ahead. When final returns showed him to be the loser by a margin of 390,000 to 367,000, Negr...
...split in the P.D.P. contributed to its defeat. Outgoing Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella was Muñoz' handpicked successor but ran afoul of the old man -and much of the island's Roman Catholic population-when he divorced his wife of 31 years and married a younger woman. Opposed by Muñoz for renomination, Sánchez bolted the P.D.P. to run as a third-party candidate. He pulled 87,000 votes that probably would otherwise have gone to the P.D.P...
...honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including that noted Tory Barry Go Id water. Next day Jesus Esquerra, an Indian chief whose Chemehuevi tribe once owned the land, presented Sir Gilbert with a robe and headdress and rechristened him "Ha-utu-nu-wu-mu-hwint," meaning "Leader of a Noble People...
...normally would go to the P.D.P. nominee. Barring a three-way race, Negrón is slightly favored to defeat New Progressive Party Candidate Luis Ferré, a fervent advocate of statehood and the only other significant candidate. If the Popular Democratic Party should indeed splinter, the era of Muñoz and of steady commonwealth status may be ended...