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...Puerto Rico's supernationalists, the island's current status makes it nothing more than "a mistress...
Whatever the relationship is called, it has certainly been a profitable one. Once pitied as the "poorhouse of the Caribbean," Puerto Rico is now the most prosperous Spanish-speaking region in the Western Hemisphere. As evidence of its new maturity, the island next week will decide whether it wants to become the 51st state, to strike an independent course, or to retain its status as a U.S. commonwealth...
...gambling spree; gambling expenditures may have doubled in the past decade. Las Vegas, with its bargain-basement prices for rooms and floor shows and its free round-trip air fares for well-heeled customers, is now getting competition from oases in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. The numbers racket (estimated total revenue: $1.5 billion) was once known as "the black man's stock market"; now it is moving all over town. Perhaps the fastest-growing action is betting on sporting events (estimated total: $2.2 billion) with point spreads lending an edge of excitement to even the most one-sided...
Anguilla is hardly the proper setting for revolution. A 34-sq.-mi. coral dot in the Leeward Islands east of Puerto Rico, the island has rested languidly for 300 years under British rule. Without electricity or telephones, the 5,000 Anguillans earn a meager living from fishing, working a salt pond and occasional smuggling. In February, Britain tried to loosen its ties with this poor dependency by linking Anguilla with two larger and more prosperous islands to form the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla federation, retaining control only of foreign affairs and defense...
...returning products meet certain U.S. tariff-law standards, the manufacturers need pay only a nominal U.S. duty on the value of the Mexican labor involved. "Our idea," says Octaviano Campos Salas, Mexican Minister of Industry and Commerce, "is to offer an alternative to Hong Kong, Japan and Puerto Rico for free enterprise...