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...Since then, if only because of inflation, income from tourism should have jumped. But it has declined steadily to $223 million last year. So far this year, it is running an estimated 7% below 1970. Prospects are even bleaker for the summer season, normally a busy period for Puerto Rican tourism. The once crowded, palm-fringed beaches near San Juan hotels are now lightly used and cluttered with litter; some are badly polluted. Warning signs along the Condado Lagoon tell swimmers to stay away...
Bellhopping Mad. The casinos are also quiet. To attract customers, El San Juan, El Conquistador and other hotels offer gambling junkets from the mainland, some including free fares or rooms. That practice was formerly frowned on by Puerto Rican government officials fearful of drawing too many professional gamblers and underworld figures...
...owners, a local business group, find other hotel people to run it. The Dorado Hilton is scheduled to shut in June, when Hilton International ends operations there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn part of it into a hotel school. El Convento Hotel is $4,000,000 in debt...
...many other parts of the Caribbean, tourism in Puerto Rico has been crimped by the U.S. recession and competition from cheap group-rate air fares to Europe. Another factor is the increasing violence in the fight between proponents and opponents of Puerto Rican independence from the U.S. When urban guerrillas bombed seven stores in San Juan one night last month, 1,400 conventioneering pharmacists were persuaded to remain only after police and politicians gave them assurances of protection...
...person at one level at a time" is an outgrowth of her post-Wheaton frustration over conventional reformist projects. As a graduate student at the Columbia School of Social Work, she went to Harlem to act as a "block catalyst." Her block was black on one side and Puerto Rican on the other; she was neither black nor Spanish. "My role," she says, "just was not valid." After another year of drifting among various office jobs, she ended up in Vermont, where she has stopped chain-smoking, turned watchful and reflective...