Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Puerto Rican terrorist talks...
Once again, those Puerto Rican bombs. Three exploded in New York City one day last week, touching off fires in two stores and terrifying midday strollers outside Manhattan's main library. There were no casualties, but a letter calling for a "war of nerves" against "Yanki-imperialism" that was found in a phone booth made it clear that the lack of bloodshed was only luck: the Puerto Rican terrorists who call themselves the F.A.L.N. had struck again...
...Newark, as well as in New York. The worst outrage: a 1975 lunchtime bombing of Manhattan's Fraunces Tavern that left four dead. Searching for reasons why the F.A.L.N. bombers have been able to persist, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth interviewed a former terrorist from a similar Puerto Rican independence group. Willwerth's report...
...F.A.L.N. is the latest standard-bearer of violent Puerto Rican nationalist tradition that goes back to 1868, when machete-carrying rebels briefly proclaimed a republic in the Spanish colonial town of Lares. In the 1940s and '50s, followers of Pedro Albizu Campos not only bombed buildings and murdered officials on the island but also brought terrorism to the U.S.: gunmen tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950, and in 1954 shot up the House of Representatives.* The F.A.L.N. first appeared in August 1974, when it claimed responsibility for a bombing in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. The group...
...later had second thoughts. Said she in a statement: "The portrayal of ourselves as gentle, reasonable, well-educated and white was a move to disassociate ourselves from the alleged 'extremism' of prison struggles, the Black Liberation Army, the Symbionese Liberation Army and the F.A.L.N. [the militant Puerto Rican nationalist group...