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Despite the postponement, there were heartening signs last week that U.S.-Latin American relations are making a healthy readjustment from the sense of outrage and , shock that sprang from the violent attacks on the U.S. Vice President. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munñoz Marin put the Nixon incidents in perspective by urging the U.S. to "take a new look...
...massive extirpation force netted and scatter-gunned the exhausted birds or snared them with long, gum-tipped bamboo poles. At last report 310,000 sparrows had fallen in Peking alone, and an estimated 4,000,000 throughout the rest of Red China. The national hero was Yang Seh-mun, 16, of Yunnan. He had killed 20,000 sparrows by sneaking around during the day locating nesting trees. At night, China Youth proudly reported, he then climbed trees and strangled whole families of sparrows with his bare hands...
...dynasty (1392-1910) was more concerned with painting. Strict, conservative and Confucian in outlook, the court looked for its models to the Chinese masters. One of the best, Yi In-mun (1745-1821), combined fantasy and perspective with superb brushwork and a cautious use of color that in many ways surpass his Chinese models. No such inhibitions bothered Sin Yun-pok (see overleaf), whose sumptuous scenes were often shocking to his contemporaries. One such scene of a kisaeng (geisha) party, with dancing girls performing on mats out of doors to the music of the hatted orchestra, is something no Korean...
When in 1950 Congress offered to let Puerto Rico write its own constitution, MunÕz helped draft it and happily saw it approved, 375,000 to 83,000. The constitution makes Puerto Rico self-governing in local affairs, gives it a relationship to the U.S. defined in the official Spanish term as Estado Libre Asociado (Free Associated State); the official translation is Commonwealth. Congress' laws, notably the draft, apply to Puerto Rico, but because the island has no vote in Con gress it is spared the income...
They come specifically to learn Puerto Rico's pragmatic techniques of letting private enterprise develop an area while a democratically elected government supplies aid and incentives. Luis MunÕz Marin thinks that they also see "the U.S. at its undogmatic best: the helping hand guided by the undoctrinaire spirit, so forgetful of its bigness that it fully reveals its greatness...