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Died. Tito Rodriguez, 50, the "Frank Sinatra of Latin Music" who made his singing debut on Puerto Rican radio at the age of 13, sang during the '40s with the band of Xavier Cugat, then sold more than 12 million recordings of softly rendered, romantic love songs; of complications following a bleeding ulcer; in Manhattan...
...will elevate to the office in a special consistory March 5. The new Roman Catholic princes will bring the number in the College of Cardinals to a record high of 145. Three of the new cardinals are Americans: Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez, 50, of San Juan-the first Puerto Rican cardinal ever; Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros, 57, of Boston; and Archbishop Timothy Manning, 63, of Los Angeles. The new appointments take up the electoral slack left in the college when Pope Paul decreed that cardinals over 80 may not vote in papal elections. Twenty-nine of the present cardinals...
Robert H. Elbert, dean of the Medical School, agreed Monday to appoint the task force at the request of the Third World Caucus, a group of 125 Chicano, black, American Indian and Puerto Rican Medical students...
...directive speaks with equal commitment: "There is no national anthem for Negroes. There is only one national anthem. The national anthem is for all Americans." In a debate with a member of an East Harlem street gang, the Young Lords, at his high school graduation, Andrew Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican, said: "Behind that flag is all of us. It really means something to me. I don't think in terms of blacks and Puerto Ricans. I think in terms of human beings...
...father of three boys, Clemente was working on his favorite project of a "sports city" foi Puerto Rican children shortly before his death. "What we want to do," he said, "is exchange kids with every city in the U.S. and show all the kids how to live and play with other kids." As for himself, he said after the 1971 World Series that "I would like to be remembered as the type of player I was." That in itself would be enough...