Word: rico
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Hardly a group or area is too small for Cuban attention: Jamaica police who seized the chief of the island's Mau-Mau-like rebel Ras Tafarians reported finding correspondence with Castro officials. Revolution, Castro's newspaper mouthpiece, devoted a 40-page supplement to calling Puerto Rico "a slave territory of America." Communist-lining Cheddi Jagan, a political power in British Guiana, got a red-carpet welcome in Havana...
...Alarmed Reaction. Castro's very success at exporting revolution is breeding a reaction. After an initial flirtation with the Cubans, liberal and leftist parties in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Honduras have begun to rid themselves of radical Castro supporters. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin, a stubborn early friend of the Cuban revolution, last week got fed up and demanded recall of the acting Cuban consul, charging that she was encouraging Puerto Rican separatist plotters to visit Havana. Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose Figueres, both left...
...environment, the cattle egret has flourished surprisingly well. Flocks of 200 to 300 can be seen in Puerto Rico; the bird is common in Haiti. Florida is experiencing an egret explosion: two years ago, Florida's cattle egret population was 5,000; today it exceeds 15,000, and the sociable birds have been spotted in every state along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. One wanderer, apparently lost, flew aboard a ship 200 miles off the coast of Newfoundland; another was shot by a farmer near Portland, Me. who complained it was upsetting his chickens...
Bishop McManus, 59, who arrived in Puerto Rico as a missionary in 1929, became bishop in 1947. Two years later he denounced overpopulated Puerto Rico's legalization of birth control. Bishop McManus is also sad set against a Puerto Rican law that divorces couples who have been separated for three years, and against sterilization of women, a relatively simple procedure in public hospitals...
Last May a bill reached the floor of the Puerto Rican legislature authorizing public school students to take off an hour a week for religious instruction. Pointing out that because of a shortage of classrooms and teachers 62% of Puerto Rico's public school children get only three hours of education a day, Governor Muňoz strongly opposed the bill and it was defeated. A month later Bishop McManus told Catholics in a pastoral letter: "The philosophy of your government makes it responsible for the moral evils that cloud and deChristianize our society." He urged the people...