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Plans for Reform. He is Juan Bosch. 53, a novelist, journalist and longstanding political friend of such charter members of the Latin American "democratic left'' as Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt. Like Munoz Marin, Bosch has great plans for reforming and developing his island country. Like Betancourt, he spent much of his life in exile plotting revolution-and then modified his views in favor of constitutional government...
Puerto Rico's Statehood Republican Party provides the only effective opposition there is to Mufioz' Popular Democratic Party. In the 1960 election for Governor, the Republican candidate, Luis Ferre, drew only 252,364 votes to Munoz' 457,880. But the Republicans believe that their statehood cause has been gaining strength recently. In legislative hearings and in private talks with Mufioz, the Republicans complained that Munoz was demanding a decision for or against statehood without any indication from the U.S. that statehood was even possible. Angrily, they threatened to boycott the plebiscite...
Though his party chieftains urged him to go ahead anyway, Munoz felt that any mandate he received would be seriously flawed by a Republican boycott. Last week he agreed to postpone a vote until the U.S. Congress could be consulted. Republicans joined Popular Democrats in the island legislature to approve a resolution asking the U.S. Congress for a firm commitment to give Puerto Ricans whatever status they selected...
...move enhances the future return of the Bourbons to the Spanish throne, and assures that the army will be able both to maintain its own interests and preserve order on Franco's death. Franco envisages Munoz Grandes, who suffers from both ulcers and heart trouble, not as the future chief of state but only as the head of a caretaker government backed by the strongly monarchist army. "If Franco should die or suddenly fall ill," explained one Franco aide, "Munoz Grandes will be at the head of the government dignitaries waiting at the airport to greet either Don Juan...
...Munoz Grandes' appointment was only one change in Franco's first major Cabinet overhaul since 1957. With Spain's application pending for association with the Common Market and with the growing demand for social and economic liberalization in the wake of last spring's crippling strikes, Franco purged the Cabinet of seven reactionary old ministers. The important replacements are younger than their predecessors and more oriented to the economic and political reforms of the New Europe. They include...