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...swimmers, with their second easy win in a row since returning from 11 days of training in Puerto Rico over Christmas break, raised their season record to 6-0 and extended their dual-meet winning streak to 28, the longest in the nation...
...have criticized many U.S. policies throughout the world, including Puerto Rico, but I'm against terrorism. Morally, I'm backing the U.S. 100% against the terrorist assault on the embassy's personnel in Iran and the blackmail of the U.S. [Nov. 26]. Nationalism is a good principle if expressed in a positive...
Credit for the savage attack, the worst outbreak of political violence in Puerto Rico in two decades, was claimed by three terrorist groups that favor Puerto Rico's independence from the U.S.: the Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution, the Boricua Popular Army, and the Armed Forces of Popular Resistance. "We are not playing at war," they declared in a note left in a telephone booth. "We are prepared to take this struggle to its ultimate consequences." The murders, they said, were in retaliation for a police ambush that killed two young leftists in July...
More broadly, the left-wing terrorist groups oppose any movement of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico toward statehood. If he is re-elected next year, Governor Carlos Romero Barceló has promised to hold a plebiscite in 1981 to let Puerto Ricans choose between statehood, independence and the status quo. A second cause for protesters is the Navy's determination to keep using Vieques for maneuvers...
...week's attack, American service personnel were advised not to wear their uniforms off post or to get into potentially dangerous situations. Navy personnel are now traveling in small vans that have police-car escorts. Riding shotgun in the vans are Marines that the Pentagon flew to Puerto Rico after the bus ambush...