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Competitive swimming is booming in Puerto Rico and Jesse Vassallo is the reason...
Carroll Lowenstein and co-captain Chip Raffi led the Harvard scoring with twin 79s in the team's first match since returning from more favorable playing conditions in Puerto Rico over spring break...
...admissions office attributed the increase to changes in the application forms and to recruitment tactics. Admission officers traveled this year to Puerto Rico. Texas and California to recruit minority students, Faye Frieson, associate director of admissions, said...
...than do blacks, and they are victimized in this midrange too. In California, where 16% of the population are Hispanic, they constitute 19% of the prison inmates. Like other ethnic groups, they tend to join neighborhood gangs. In Hartford, Conn., so many newly arrived young teen-agers from Puerto Rico have become victims of gang warfare that some parents have sent them back to the island for their own safety...
Morales predicted that the "Reagan policies will bring a chaotic situation" because Puerto Rico has relied too heavily of federal money. Local taxes will go up, he said, to compensate for loss of federal funds without any increase in benefits to the people. Puerto Ricans pay no federal taxes, so they will not benefit from Reagan's tax cuts...