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Leader of the fight for continued commonwealth ties is Luis Munoz Marin, 69, a near-legendary figure among the island's ibaros (peasants). The country's first elected Governor (1948), Munoz retired three years ago in favor of his protégé, Roberto Sanchez Vilella, but has remained a powerful force in favor of the commonwealth. When Governor Sanchez doomed his political career last March by spurning his wife of 31 years in favor of a comely aide, Muñoz took over the Popular Democratic Party's drive to retain common wealth status. Ever since...
...Spanish are "the most unruly people in Europe," argued that religious freedom would only stir up trouble, just as the earlier measures granting workers and students more freedom resulted in the present rash of strikes and student riots. On a more philosophical level, Public Works Minister Federico Silva Munoz, 43, contended that granting religious liberty to minority sects would shatter Spain's spiritual unity. The ministers connected with the military supported the views of Vega and Munoz, adding that a weakening of military discipline might result if, as the bill envisions, non-Catholic enlisted men were granted the right...
...plans to push Puerto Rico out of its halfway house is Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, a long time protégé of the legendary Luis Munoz Marin, who retired as chief executive in January 1965. A quiet, pipe-smoking administrator, Sanchez last week sent to his legislature no fewer than 34 pro osals, the first part of a dynamic and demanding 85-point program designed to reorient Bootstrap to the island's new problems...
...Enough. During his first year, Sánchez maintained the principal lines of Munoz's development program. He scored a far-reaching triumph in concluding an agreement with Washington and Phillips Petroleum for construction of a major petrochemical complex that will export petroleum and petroleum-based products (TIME, Jan. 7). Economic growth has been held at nearly 10% a year, one of the highest rates in the world. Politically, Sánchez chose innovation. He elevated dozens of young, energetic officials to high posts. For the first time, the legislature was called into three special sessions. At his behest...
...Munoz used to thunder at the jibaros (peasants): "Be strong, have faith!"-and that sufficed. Sánchez, whom Munoz once called a "man of illustrious conscience," demands their participation in government, tirelessly urges Puerto Ricans to send their advice, criticisms and suggestions to La Fortaleza, the Governor's stately white mansion in Old San Juan. "We cannot maintain even for one more year the collective indifference toward the daily task of government," he pleads. "Let this be the year of the people's expression...