Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward Castro & Co. that was notably missing in the days before the election. Henceforth, Navy patrol planes will scan the east coast of Central America while the Shangri-La squadron operates in the general area southwest of Cuba. The Boxer Marine unit will continue to conduct exercises in Puerto Rico and send Marines ashore on weekend liberty in friendly Caribbean ports...
...Puerto Rico's Roman Catholic bishops last week moved even more deeply into their continuing church v. state battle, at the same time found themselves at odds with the conscience and conviction of many a good Catholic. Just before the recent elections, Puerto Rico's three bishops denounced Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party for its "anti-Catholic and antiChristian" toleration of birth control, sterilization and common-law marriage (TIME. Oct. 31), warned that Catholics who voted for the P.D.P. would "inevitably" be guilty of sin. Nevertheless...
...article "Fuss in Puerto Rico" might be more appropriately entitled "Fuzz in P.R.", for it is indeed fuzzy thinking knowingly to vote for a party which uses public funds to run birth-control clinics, a party which has repeatedly refused to grant one hour a week off public school time (as is done in the U.S.) for religious instruction of the pupil's choice; it is indeed fuzzy thinking to vote for this party and still claim to be a Catholic...
Despite any and all mitigating circumstances which the Roman church might claim for its actions in Puerto Rico, when any body seeks to take upon itself the prerogative of directing the voting of its adherents it is striking a blow at freedom, no matter where it is done in the world. To have it done in an area that is under the protection of the U.S. Constitution is a deadly blow indeed...
...manner of action of three Puerto Rican Catholic bishops is just as bad as the attitude and action of several American ministers of religion who directly or indirectly persuade or force their subjects not to vote for a Catholic candidate for the presidency. In Puerto Rico the action was not motivated by a religion issue, but rather by a moral issue involving principles and practices contrary to sound Christianity, while here in the U.S. there is no moral issue involved, but only bigotry...