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...Under Secretary of the Interior and later as Puerto Rico's paid counsel in Washington, Fortas had long and intimate connections with the island, which he has called "my second home." Johnson dispatched him to Puerto Rico in April 1965 as a secret go-between to the exile government of the Dominican Republic. Under the assumed name of J. B. Davidson, Fortas established an office in the Governor's summer home and set up a liaison between Johnson and Juan Bosch, the Dominican ex-President. Later, J. B. Davidson helped arrange the Republic's free elections. As one of Johnson...
...Puerto Rico (8): All leaning heavily to Humphrey...
...tropic Puerto Rico, only the weather generates as much heat as the island's politics. This year temperatures - and tempers - are soaring unusually high as the result of a rash of fires that began to flare last October, just as candidates were warming up for what promises to be a sulfurous 1968 campaign. All the fires have been traced to the same origin: fire bombs aimed at driving U.S. -owned business out of the Commonwealth. In the past year, arsonists have set 20 fires costing $15.6 million, with department stores and supermarkets the principal targets...
...Commandos can already claim some victories. Despite a 70% hike in fire insurance rates for 1968, many insurers were canceling protection for U.S.-owned supermarkets and stores. To help them out, Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella earlier this month signed an emergency law forcing insurance companies in Puerto Rico to take on up to $7,000,000 a year in high-risk policies for companies unable to obtain normal insurance coverage...
Blue Star. Using the coordinates given by Hewish, Astronomer Frank Drake trained the giant Arecibo, Puerto Rico, radio telescope on pulsar 3 and discovered that each of its signals was composed of two closely spaced peaks. The peaks were so sharp, he said, that the signal may originate from an object as small as a few hundred miles across; if pulsar 3 were much larger, the peaks would be gradual and less distinct. Using England's Jodrell Bank radio telescope, Astronomer Graham Smith discovered that the radio waves from pulsars are polarized, indicating that they pass through a magnetic...