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...Puerto Rico's three most important political figures met at the Law School last night for a symposium on relations' between the United States and Puerto Rico. The forum marked the first time in six years that all three have appeared together...
Ruben Berrios-Martinez, the president of the independence party, said that the idea of the U.S. giving Puerto Rico" any kind of self-determination is pure hypocrisy as long as there is colonialism...
Robert M. Ulin '84 and Philip H. Lovett '83, each accompanied by a friend, left early yesterday morning for three-day all-expense-payed vacations in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico, respectively...
...Belize. Along with the vacationers has come a multitude of corporate enterprises: petrochemical plants, electronics factories, cement works. Attracted by special economic enticements and an eager labor force, industry now occupies or overlooks once pristine mangrove swamps and placid lagoons like those that dot the coast of Puerto Rico...
...standard of living throughout the Caribbean basin, with its exploding population of nearly 200 million, but the price has been high. Each new hotel or factory takes away a bit of jungle, sometimes replacing valuable mangrove, whose matted roots provide shelter and sustenance for aquatic life. Says Puerto Rico's Arsenio Rodriguez Mercado, a scientific adviser to the U.N. Environment Program: "Sewage generated by 30 million people is dumped more or less untreated into the Caribbean." On some islands, hotels discharge wastes into the waters where guests swim. Adding to the mess are the cruise ships and yachts anchored...