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...replaced by transnational organizations and a "planetary consciousness." As proof, Toffler cites the hot flames of--nationalism. In Corsica, in Scotland, in Wales, Cornwall, Essex, Belgium, Switzerland, the Sudetenland, the South Tyrol, Austria, the Basques and Catalan, Quebec, Western Australia, the South Island of New Zealand, even Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, patriots are going their separatist ways, he says. Some, perhaps those who reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this proves Toffler wrong, demonstrating that nation-states, far from extinction, are likely only to multiply. Instead, Toffler says, we will soon...
Before leaving, they hung several long banners and spray-painted the office with slogans: FREE PUERTO RICO and STATEHOOD MEANS DEATH, as well as the initials F.A.L.N...
Politics by terrorism is not confined to Tehran or Bogota. Last week, just one day before Puerto Rico's Democratic primary and three days before Illinois's general primary, two armed bands claiming to belong to the Puerto Rican nationalist F.A.L.N. attacked Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters in Chicago and George Bush's office in New York City, seizing hostages in both places. The F.A.L.N. (for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberatión National) has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in major U.S. cities in the past six years and obviously wants to make Puerto Rico...
...other Republican candidates. Neither Carter nor Kennedy has outlined his position, although pro-Carter Puerto Ricans generally favor statehood while Kennedy supporters want improvements in the island's current status. In any case, the F.A.L.N. and its tactics seem to have little support in Puerto Rico. Voting during the past few years indicates that almost half of the island's citizens favor statehood, about 45% want to remain a commonwealth-and fewer than 7% support independence...
This is it. The grueling preseason with its seemingly endless yardage; the sun and full-time training in Puerto Rico over Christmas; the bitter taste of the unexpected loss to Princeton followed by the ecstasy of the upset of Indiana and the convincing defense of the Eastern Seaboard title--these events are history now, and the time has come, at next week's NCAA Championships, for the Crimson swim team to show itself and the world just how good a swimming program we have here in Cambridge...