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...Puerto Rico's new Governor-elect, Carlos Romero Barceló, was startled to be summoned from a luncheon table in San Juan on the last day of the year by an urgent telephone call from the White House. The message: within an hour, President Gerald Ford would propose that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico become the U.S.'s 51st state...
...worked for several hours on the 1977-78 budget, a proposal for a $10 billion tax cut and the State of the Union message that he will deliver on Jan. 12. He also made the surprising announcement that he would ask Congress to enact legislation to admit Puerto Rico, now a commonwealth whose residents have U.S. citizenship, as a full-fledged state...
Heavy Traffic. Last week two more accidents occurred. Another Liberian tanker, the Daphne, ran aground off Puerto Rico and still another, the Olympic Games, grounded and suffered a hull puncture during a docking maneuver at Marcus Hook, Pa. Moving downstream in a slick 32 miles long, its cargo seeped into marshes, coating wintering waterfowl with a sticky layer of oil that matted their feathers and robbed them of their insulating properties. Tens of thousands of birds were endangered...
...hope that the island eventually will become independent," Miguel A. Echavarria '79, a native of Puerto Rico, said yesterday. But he added he preferred a commonwealth to statehood, saying that he did not take Ford's proposal seriously and doubted that anyone else would...
Ford's proposal was a statement of Caribbean policy and would "show the Cubans that we are serious about Puerto Rico," John R. Womack, Professor of History, said yesterday...