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April-Agro's enterprising president, Morris Demel, 50, a Polish-born Jew who grew up in Cuba and fled to Puerto Rico after Castro's takeover, planned to grow produce on arid southern coast farmland once used for sugar cane. Importing five Israeli agronomists and applying drip-irrigation methods developed on Israeli kibbutzim, Demel initially wanted to devote 5,000 acres to fruits and vegetables. But seven years after he began the project, only 1,000 acres are under cultivation...
...loans and seemed to have little prospect of ever reaching solvency. Critics charged that instead of concentrating on popular products like honeydew melons, peppers and tomatoes, April-Agro grew too many other crops, including plantains and cabbage. Demel counters that he has created a new export market for Puerto Rican produce. In 1979-80, when April-Agro began, the island grew only about 3,600 tons of tomatoes a year, valued at just $1.4 million; hardly any of the crop was fit for export. But in the six months ending in May of this year, exports reached 4,150 tons...
...April-Agro controversy has also been clouded with a nativist suspicion of Demel and his new methods. Claridad, official newspaper of the pro-independence Puerto Rican Socialist Party, refers to Demel as the "Jew Cuban," and local planters refer to April-Agro as "the Israelis." The English-language San Juan Star, in urging the Governor to delay action against the experimental farm, pointed to "a deep-seated resentment against 'outside' farmers changing the way agriculture has been traditionally carried out." Hernández-Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover...
...good." Scouten soon found himself on Wake Island in the Secret Service advance team for the Korean War meeting between Truman and his independent-minded general, Douglas MacArthur. He was in the White House's West Wing when the flash came about the assassination attempt against Truman by two Puerto Rican nationalists at Blair House across the street. In a couple of minutes he was on the scene...
...Covenham townspeople approve the sale, as expected, architectural students will be recruited for the painstaking dismantling procedure. When reassembled in California, the structure will nonetheless fall short of rivaling Puerto Rico's San José Church, built in 1523, which is claimed to be the oldest Christian church in continuous use in the Western Hemisphere. To its parishioners, said Rector James Hohlfeld of St. Matthews, the British medieval church "will serve as a demonstration of the Anglican tradition." That heritage can sometimes be difficult to maintain. At present, the rector's assistant, Samuel Scheibler, told the Orange County Register...