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About 25 students last night picketed a Chase Manhattan Bank minority recruiting meeting, calling on students not to attend the meeting and on Chase to halt its operations in Puerto Rico and other third world countries...
Roberto Lewis '79-1, a member of La Organization--the group which sponsored the protest--said yesterday the demonstrators wished to "eliminate the privilege of Chase in Puerto Rico and its support of a colonial government...
...denounced America's "occupation" of Guantanamo and condemned the "unjust blockade with which the United States Government continues its efforts to isolate the Cuban revolution." He called on the U.S. to desist from its "repressive maneuvers" aimed at perpetuating Puerto Rico's "colonial status." Shouts of "Fidel! Fidel!" echoed through the hall when Castro finished his stemwinder, and he reveled in a 1½-min. standing ovation. Among less enthusiastic spectators: U.S. Ambassador Donald McHenry, who listened impassively through the diatribe...
Money alone will not turn the Caribbean into paradise. After all, Puerto Rico gets more than $1 billion in federal aid, but unemployment hovers at 18% and the living standard is well below that of the mainland U.S. Still, there is a growing recognition by the Administration that "poverty is the real menace" -to cite the words of Francisco Peńa Gómez, secretary-general of the Dominican Republic's ruling party. As one policymaker puts it, "There's a feeling that the U.S. should get more involved with a country like Nicaragua or a Caribbean...
With ten minutes left, Blood dove to his right to stop a hard header from Jose Rico. With that stop he preserved a win he and his team both deserved and needed...