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...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, Negrón sulked for four days before offering Ferr...
...month earlier to forestall popular debate, and the Governor's forces charged that the selection of delegates was rigged. Last week, in San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium, party regulars, under the impassive gaze of Luis Muñoz, jeered Sánchez, then overwhelmingly nominated Luis Negrón Lopez, the senate majority leader, for the governorship...
...nchez withdrew to greet several thousand of his own partisans at La Fortaleza and to ponder running as an independent. His candidacy would drain off many votes that 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...
...other candidates for the P.D.P. nomination immediately surfaced: Senate Majority Leader Luis Negrón López, 58, and Santiago Polanco Abreu, 47, the island's commissioner in Washington. Waiting to profit from the P.D.P.'s current split is Industrialist Luis Ferré, head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party...
...soon as the A.P. story moved, New York's dailies realized that the wire service had scooped them on their home ground. Some sent their own reporters to interview Negrón; most of them gave the story a big play. And publicity turned out to be just what Negrón needed. Hardly were the papers on the stands than he received some 50 job offers, ranging from clerk in a life insurance company to a crewman on the Staten Island ferry. He settled for a temporary job as assistant circulation manager for the Spanish-language daily...