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Several Puerto Rican students at Harvard oppose President Ford's proposal to make Puerto Rico the fifty-first state, and believe that Puerto Rico's commonwealth status will not change...

Author: By Douglas W. Oman, | Title: Puerto Rican Undergraduates Oppose Proposal of Statehood | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...Puerto Rico will not become a state because there is too much opposition internationally, he added...

Author: By Douglas W. Oman, | Title: Puerto Rican Undergraduates Oppose Proposal of Statehood | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...Resumption of efforts to "normalize relations with Cuba" by lifting the U.S. embargo on food and medicines in return for such concessions as Cuban release of U.S. prisoners, withdrawal from Angola and an end to meddling in Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Good Neighbors Again? | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...States: the Speaker of the House. This process has sometimes produced gory battles. But last week, with the 292 Democrats who will sit in the next Congress eligible to vote (along with delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico), there was literally no contest. Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, after four brilliantly successful years as majority leader, was unopposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: After the Walkover, a Squeaker | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...your roommates never returned from Thanksgiving break. Another one took off for Puerto Rico on Sunday, and the third left last night taking the stereo with him, despite your last minute pleas for mercy...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: You Thought You Had It Bad | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

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