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When the plane touched down, bringing home four nationalist terrorists newly released after more than two decades in U.S. prisons, the crowd tore down protective fences and surged forward, chanting "?Viva Puerto Rico Libre...
Earlier in the week, at receptions in Chicago and New York City, they had demanded Puerto Rican independence and refused to rule out violence. During a press conference at the U.N., Collazo said, "I decide whether terrorism is necessary after I return to Puerto Rico." Lebrón added, "I am a revolutionary and a member of the atomic age ... I hate bombs but we might have to use them...
...Puerto Rican Governor Carlos Romero Barceloó an ardent proponent of statehood, had opposed the release of the prisoners and pointedly left San Juan for a visit to the mainland to avoid the whole fuss over their return. Their release coincides with the campaign that will culminate in Puerto Rico's first presidential primaries, to be held in February and March of 1980. With straight faces, White House aides deny any link between the release of the prisoners and the island's 41 Democratic convention delegates. Said one aide, speaking of the freed prisoners: "We didn...
...oppose the words and deeds of the four nationalists were rather pleased by their release. Said one activist: "For Puerto Ricans, the nationalist ex-prisoners represent, even for those of us who are not Independistas, people who lived by principle, people who placed the cause of freedom for Puerto Rico above themselves." Said Commonwealth Founder Luis Muñoz Marin: "I share the deep satisfaction for this clemency that all Puerto Ricans must feel...
...less than 7%. As for his Administration's feelings about Puerto Rican statehood-pro-statehood forces won 48% of the vote in the last election -Carter told the congressional caucus dinner last week: -"I would support whatever decision is made by the people of Puerto Rico...