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...Popular Democratic Party's Hernández Colón, who was Governor for four years before losing to Romero in 1976, campaigned aggressively against statehood, insisting that Puerto Ricans did not want to relinquish their 28-year-old commonwealth status. To guard against election fraud, he issued a "call to the trenches" for his followers. They became so stirred as initial results came in on election night that a large crowd marched on the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, where the ballots were counted. They threw rocks at police and at cars displaying the N.P.P.'s palm tree emblems...
...fully agree. "There is no evidence that Congress will grant D.C. statehood," Eldridge Spearman, press aide to Rep. William E. Fauntroy (D-D.C.), a nonvoting delegate who helped author the Voting Rights Amendment, contends. "In fact, all indications are that Congress would reject it. Congress would not relinquish the authority it has had over D.C.," he adds...
Much has been written about Johnson's decision to relinquish his powerful majority leadership to run as John F. Kennedy's vice-presidential candidate. There was a health reason: L.B.J. had suffered a heart attack in 1955 and needed a less taxing job. But Johnson also foresaw the end of his senatorial strength. Explains Moyers, a future presidential assistant: "If a Democrat got the nomination and won the election, then that Democrat was going to be Mr. Democrat in the nation. Not Lyndon Johnson . . . On the other hand, if Nixon were President-partisan, narrow, an infighter, a vehement...
...Congress the 76-year-old Deng will fulfill his promise to resign as Senior Vice Premier, ostensibly because of his advanced age. Also expected to relinquish their posts are four other Vice Premiers: Xu Xiangqian, 78, Li Xiannian, 73, Chen Yun, 75, and Wang Zhen...
...keeping Bill Brock as R.N.C. chairman. Traditionally the nominee puts his own man in the post, but Brock had won widespread support from conservatives and moderates alike for his successful efforts to broaden the party's base and elect more Republicans to state legislatures. Brock has had to relinquish some of his authority, but as long as he stays on the job, he symbolizes party unity...