Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four pilots, 2 demolition experts, 2 radiomen, 2 medics, 3 arms experts or suppliers, a dozen marines, 1 Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 3 Cuban (Castro) rebels, 1 Yugoslav guerilla, 4 Chinese, 1 Costa Rican, 2 Negroes, numerous Korean veterans...
...mind was an upsurge of statehood sentiment after admission to the Union of Hawaii, which is also a racially dissimilar, noncontiguous U.S. possession. As a first step, he promised to request the island legislature to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress about whether the U.S. should commit...
...basic meaning of the Puerto Rican experience, according to Governor Luis Munoz Marin, is that a people, freed from colonialism, can avoid nationalism...
Proposed changes include the removal of debt limitation from the Puerto Rican people and its insertion into the Puerto Rican constitution. Further, appeals from the Puerto Rican Supreme Court will be redirected to the U.S. Supreme Court rather than to the Circuit Court of Boston. Munoz said that his government is also considering both a plan that would enable the President of the United States to negotiate certain commercial treaties for Puerto Rico, and a system that would allow Puerto Rican citizens to pay for federal functions performed in Puerto Rico...
Once again, the question period proved particularly vigorous, and lasted almost as long as the speech itself. Questioned about the advantage for the U.S. in Puerto Rican relationships, Munoz said that, of course, his country could not make an appreciable financial contribution to the U.S., but that it serves as a go-between for the Latins and the North Americans...