Word: rico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quiet House chamber was occupied by 243 members when Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist, walked rapidly down an aisle in the visitors' gallery. She held a German automatic pistol with both hands, pointed it at Speaker Joe Martin and shouted: "Puerto Rico is not free." Right behind her, two other Nationalists, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero, held similar guns and sprayed the House floor with bullets. Martin escaped behind a column, but five Congressmen were wounded. The attacking trio were quickly seized. A fourth member of the plot, Irving Flores Rodriguez, was arrested...
...Carter granted clemency to the four Puerto Ricans remaining in prison. He had freed the fifth, Cordero, in 1977 because Cordero was dying of cancer. The White House cited "humane considerations" in freeing the terrorists. But the clemency also could help Carter politically among Hispanic voters in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. It was possible, too, that the release might make Fidel Castro more willing to respond to U.S. pleas that three Americans and a Puerto Rican charged with espionage be released from his jails...
...easier to weed out state and local judges. Since 1960, 48 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have created commissions to discipline judges for wrongdoing. A few of these commissions are effective: since 1975, the New York commission has removed ten judges, censured 65, suspended four, and 73 have resigned. California is now witnessing the unique spectacle of a public investigation of the state supreme court. At issue is whether some members of the court delayed announcing politically controversial decisions before an election in order to save Chief Justice Rose Bird from being ousted by the voters...
...creation of 152 new judgeships last year gave President Carter the chance to fulfill his campaign promise: "Why not the best?" He has managed to make Senators use "merit" selection committees in 24 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, but some flatly refused. Maryland's Senator Paul Sarbanes selected his former law partner; another, North Carolina's Robert Morgan, nominated his campaign manager. Carter has also diversified the bench to make sure the judges' backgrounds and attitudes more closely reflect the population's. When he took office, only 1% were female and only 5% were black or Hispanic...
...York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt in 1941, Tugwell continued his crusades for social reform and the equitable distribution of wealth. Upon resigning five years later, he resumed his academic pursuits, laboring in his final years on proposals for a new U.S. Constitution...