Word: rico
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Until a fortnight ago, when the island's three Roman Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party, Puerto Rico's gubernatorial campaign was a race without an issue. Muñoz' opponent, Luis Ferré, candidate of the Statehood Republican Party and a partner in the island's largest private enterprise (Ferré Industries), had demanded a plebiscite on statehood, but foxy old Muñoz sidetracked that issue. His party slipped a rule through the legislature that no statehood plebiscite...
Leaving no doubt as to where Bishop McManus stood, his chancellor at Ponce. Msgr. Victor M. Nazario, added that anyone who supported Muñoz Popular Democratic Party "not only commits a mortal sin but can also be excommunicated." Taking its cue, Puerto Rico's new Catholic Action Party, openly sponsored by Davis and McManus, took full-page daily ads in the newspapers to remind voters that "Catholics cannot vote for the Popular Party." Spot radio commercials proclaimed that "the Masons, the Protestants and the Communists obey Luis Muñoz Marin. Catholics obey their bishops...
...Americans, Puerto Ricans traditionally make a sharp distinction between religion and politics, and cannot be expected to desert Munoz for the bishops. What is likely to cost Muñoz more votes is the old statehood question. For all the maneuverings in favor of commonwealth status (which gives Puerto Rico the advantages of being part of the U.S. without federal taxation), the statehood vote is growing. In 1956, the Statehood Republicans polled 172,000 votes. This year the experts predict a 60% jump to 275,000 or more...
...students are beefing again about ROTC and the U.S. Army's archaic training methods. University officials have an other objection: cost. The Government supplies the instructors and equipment, but the burden of administration and providing building space falls on the universities. This year four major universities-Cornell, Puerto Rico, Rutgers, Wisconsin-have dropped compulsory ROTC.* Others are thinking of doing...
Bundy called the Castro government "Marxist-oriented" and a "one-party" state. He cited Cuban attacks on the democratic regimes in Venexuela, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica as indications of Castro's "favorable attitude" towards Russia...