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Three Puerto Rican politicians, facing off at a Kennedy School debate last night, sharply disagreed on whether remaining a commonwealth would best serve the island's political and economic interests...
...Puerto Rican independence party leader Ruben Berrios rapped commonwealth "colonialism" as a thing of the past, saying the island "is a colony of the United States basically for the same reasons it was a colony of Spain--for geopolitical reasons...
...easy to locate the dead: as soon as the rains stopped, the Puerto Rican sun quickly baked the gooey clay rock-hard. By week's end only 38 bodies had been recovered. But Ponce Mayor Jose Dapena predicted that the death toll could eventually rise to 500. That would rank not only as Puerto Rico's worst single disaster in this century but as the most destructive landslide in U.S. history...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...
Aurora Levins-Morales, a Puerto Rican activist and poet, read from her works about sexual and racial alienation last night at Radcliffe's Agassiz House...