Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking direct aim at Powell, who has a $45,000 beach home in Puerto Rico, Ashbrook claimed that taxpayers have paid for at least 30 trips to that island with committee funds. He cited 19 per diem expense vouchers made out to Powell in 22 months for travel in Puerto Rico or "place not known." With bitter understatement, Ashbrook said: "Next to New York City, the problems of Puerto Rico seemed to call for the largest single outlay of our travel funds. At a time when we are mortgaging the future, and maybe the hereafter too, it would seem wise...
...powerful praise for a onetime revolutionary who wandered the hemisphere in exile for nearly 20 years, who was himself a Communist in his youth, and was ordered out of Puerto Rico in 1955 by U.S. State Department officials trying to get along with a Venezuelan dictator. But the fires of violence have cooled in Betancourt. When he arrived in the U.S. for a five-day state visit, he was acknowledged as a firm friend and ally of the U.S., and as the Kennedy Administration's favorite Latin American...
...question was how to stop the Anzoátegui. Navy planes flashed blinker signals ordering the vessel to head for Puerto Rico. No answer from the Anzoátegui, as it plowed steadily southward toward Brazil, where, in the words of a government official, "asylum is a Brazilian tradition.'' When the hijackers ignored the orders to change course, the planes swooped down to fire rockets nearby. The hijackers seemed to be in for a rough time...
...squat little Japanese freighter, the Taian Maru, churned through the Pacific last week on a historic journey. On its way from Coos Bay, Ore., to Puerto Rico with a load of Pacific Northwest lumber, the Taian Maru is the first foreign flag ship in more than four decades to carry cargo from one U.S. port to another...
Canadian lumbermen using lower-cost foreign ships walked away with U.S. lumbermen's East Coast business, and Canadian softwood lumber exports to Puerto Rico have increased seventyfold since 1951 while the Pacific Northwest's share shriveled to nothing. Finally, in a desperation move to save the lumber industry, Congress last year amended the Jones Act to allow lumber to go to Puerto Rico on foreign bottoms for a one-year trial period...