Word: ricans
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Miami became the only major mainland U.S. city to be governed primarily by Hispanics. Puerto Rican-born Mayor Maurice Ferre won a-fourth term, and Hispanics were assured of three posts on the five-member city commission. They retained two seats, and a runoff for another commission post will pit two Cuban-born candidates against each other. Indeed, twelve of the 16 candidates for top city offices were of Latin background...
TIME's article on the freeing of the four Puerto Rican Nationalists [Sept. 17] twice referred to them as "terrorists." The Nationalists were received in Puerto Rico as what they are: first-class heroes of a great historical cause. True terrorists cause meaningless death and destruction, and hide as they commit their acts. The Nationalists were willing to give their lives, and committed their revolutionary acts for the whole world...
...both Puerto Rico and the U.S." The real issue should not have been the possible political benefit for President Carter, but the fact that by keeping Puerto Rico a colony, the U.S. is internationally considered an imperialistic power. It is not only a mater of freeing four Puerto Rican Nationalists but of freeing all Puerto Rico, of recognizing Puerto Rico as a sovereign nation...
...reach, displaying a deft politician's hand that would have shamed Lyndon Johnson. The police had reason to wall off their charge: the FBI in Newark received a written warning that the Pope would be shot in Manhattan on Tuesday. The letter, purporting to come from the terrorist Puerto Rican Nationalist F.A.L.N., directed the FBI to an apartment in Elizabeth, N.J., where a submachine gun gun and several empty boxes of ammunition for handguns were found...
Said Jackson: "I ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time." He acknowledged, however, that he had collaborated with the CIA in the past. The fourth, Puerto Rican-born Claudio Rodriguez Morales, 49, was jailed in 1966 for trying to smuggle Cubans out of the country...