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...boost that cause, the island's majority party, the New Progressive Party (P.N.P.), sponsored the 1977 legislation establishing the primaries, thus ending the custom of party leaders selecting convention delegates. "The primaries are a giant step toward promoting and achieving statehood," says Hernán Padilla, Republican Party executive vice president. "They take us into the direct political process...
...previous military President, General David Padilla, who stepped down in August, vainly appealed to soldiers to stage a countercoup that would return the presidency to Guevara, but by week's end active resistance to the new regime halted...
...Government is helpful. He will not say what they are, since he feels that premature publicity killed his earlier attempt to work with nearby Indians as an alternative to serving his prison sentence. "We certainly could use some plumbers in our struggle to establish our water rights," jokes Lucario Padilla, chairman of the eight northern Indian Pueblos Council, but he suggests that Ehrlichman's help would be "more useful in the form of ditch work...
...Miami; that he be given the precise sum of $306,800, the amount he lost in a lawsuit when the Federal Government took away a marina he owned; that he be flown to Dallas to see a psychiatrist; and that Angela Davis and a Dallas County prisoner named George Padilla, a friend, be released. Padilla told his Dallas jailers, "I'm not going anywhere with him. He's nuts." Trapnell agreed to let the 94 passengers debark at Kennedy Airport, ordered the pilot to take off, then forced him to return to Kennedy when the plane was over...
Self-exiled Cuban Novelist Juan Arcocha, an old friend of Padilla's who now lives in France, insists that the poet's "selfcriticism could have been signed in only one way: under torture." That is unproven, but one thing is beyond dispute. Padilla's evidently forced recantation only further estranged Castro from his quondam admirers. "The pit between Cuba's leaders and the non-Communist European or Latin American Left is being dug deeper," wrote Marcel Niedergang, a longtime friend and supporter of Castro, in France's Le Monde. For his part, Fidel turned...