Word: nchez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...nchez proposes a public corporation to raise investment capital at home. He aims to check inflationary land speculation, carry on large-scale road-construction projects, build new schools and hospitals, double teacher training, reform the fragmented housing program and-to help pay for it all-boost taxes. The only conspicuous initiative absent from his 85 points is an attempt to start a meaningful birth-control campaign, the one sure solution to the island's spiraling population...
...Illustrious Conscience." Sánchez Vilella does not propose to change the island's unique and somewhat vague relationship with the U.S. as a "free associated state." Although there is still some academic discussion over the alternative of full statehood or independence, Puerto Ricans are understandably wedded to the economic benefits of their present status, most notably exemption from federal income tax. Many feel, nonetheless, that this relationship tends to perpetuate the island's role as a passive dependency...
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...
...drug addict's world. Director Mitchell turns his camera into streets alive with the ruthless, luckless desperation of hung-up types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear light into one of Manhattan's open wounds...