Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation is trouble. As President he proposed some badly needed social and economic reforms. But they never got off the ground during his inept administration, and Communists infiltrated deep into his government. After he was deposed and exiled, he became a writer-in-residence at the University of Puerto Rico; when the April revolt erupted, there he sat, making no move except to issue pronouncements that only fanned the flames. In general, he backed the rebels and denounced...
Dubinsky reluctantly admits that the old pizazz is missing, but points out that in places where the going gets tough, the "spirit of 1900 comes back to us. In the South and in Puerto Rico, we have good militant strikes, just like old times...
Among the early returnees is supposed to be Juan Bosch, who sat out the revolution in Puerto Rico, and is expected to campaign for President in the elections next year. To celebrate his arrival, Bosch supporters are already planning another huge rally. All of which could bring on more fireworks, and a deeper mire for the U.S. and OAS. For now, having kicked out Wessin y Wessin, Lyndon Johnson can hardly be less tough toward the Communists still in the Dominican Republic...
...woman is turned down on all sides but has enough money, she can go to Scandinavia, Switzerland or Japan, where a legal abortion is easier to obtain, or to Mexico or Puerto Rico, where abortions are technically illegal but relatively easy to arrange, under medical auspices...
...Brazilian Baptists, for example, had 10,000 converts last year but threw out 4,000 members for such sins as smoking and drinking. Protestantism thus may be missing the social implications in the message of Christ, who came, says Thomas J. Liggett, head of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico, "to radically change the circumstances of men." In the revolutionary climate of Latin America, warns Rafael Cepeda, a Presbyterian minister from Cuba, "the churches are dancing the minuet while the world is dancing to jazz...