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Last week the terrorists appeared in court for sentencing, thoroughly shackled but still defiant. Most, like Ringleader Carlos Alberto Torres, 28, shouted "Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" Carmen Valentin, 34, a former Chicago teacher, threatened Federal Judge Thomas R. McMillen: "If I weren't chained, I'd try to take care of you right now." For his part, McMillen told Ricardo Jimenez, 24: "If there were a death penalty for these crimes, I'd impose it on you without any hesitation."Depending on how unrepentant he found each to be, McMillen handed down sentences ranging from...
Those inexpensive team training trips to Puerto Rico and Hawaii begin to seem more costly, if the eight to ten miles logged in the pool are added to the price...
...find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion." There was the tune the author was sued for libel by Shirley Temple; Greene recalls, "I had suggested that she had a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men." And the time he was deported from Puerto Rico by U.S. authoritie, Greene, 76, has survived professionally for some 50 years by never telling a bad story. Ways of Escape keeps that splendid record alive...
...overwhelmingly Catholic Puerto Rico, such a bizarre ceremony, with its overtones of voodoo, seemed somewhat out of place. In fact, its significance was as much political as religious. In a for mer pantyhose factory nearby, dozens of party representatives were conducting a painstaking ballot-by-ballot recount of all 1.6 million votes cast in the island's gubernatorial election. The race between Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and his main challenger, Rafael Hernández Colón, had been so close that some of the Governor's more zealous supporters concluded that a ceremonial appeal for divine...
...hairbreadth victory, following a strident and violence-marred campaign, was a hollow one for Romero. He had en joyed a 10-to 20-point lead in pre-election polls and was hoping for a land slide. The charismatic, white-haired Governor, an advocate of immediate state hood for Puerto Rico, had campaigned on a pledge that he would call a 1981 plebiscite on that question if the electorate returned him to office with a decisive majority. He now feels voters made it clear that they will not be hurried into state hood. "I thought I was being pushed...