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...bonds from tax-free Puerto Rico...
Canceled Visit. State Department officials are also concerned about a curiously hostile Chinese tone toward the U.S. in recent weeks. Last month Peking, in a gesture of support for Puerto Rico's independence movement, refused to let the mayor of San Juan join 13 other U.S. mayors in a tour of Chinese cities. The mayors canceled the entire visit as a result, but Washington got the message: If the U.S. does not withdraw its support for China's island-Taiwan -China will not recognize U.S. sovereignty over Puerto Rico...
...crowd chanted, but Luis Tiant was not there--nor was Fred Lynn, Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice, Denny Doyle, Bernie Carbo or Rico Petrocelli. Their off-season had already begun...
...group of guys with sandlot names, Pudge, Spaceman, Yaz and Rico simply don't outmuscle the Machine. It's not in the script; the little guy doesn't fight city hall...
...dependent population was largely created by federal policies. By subsidizing mechanization on the farm, the U.S. Government helped uproot hundreds of thousands of poor Southern blacks, who flocked to Northern cities during the 1950s and 1960s. The city has also been forced to accept an unlimited migration from Puerto Rico; traditionally, New York has served as the port of entry for most immigrants to America. Yet that function has never been properly recognized or reimbursed...