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...crown his 13 years as the man in charge of Puerto Rico, Governor Luis Mufioz Marin, 64, cherishes a hope of making permanent his Caribbean island's unique status as a U.S. commonwealth. Last July he called for a plebiscite late this year to let Puerto Rico's 2,450,000 people choose among independence, statehood or an improved variation of the commonwealth status that he invented 12 years ago as a way to get the benefits of both home rule and U.S. help...
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Shipped or Stored? After U Thant returned to New York, the U.S. resumed its naval blockade of Cuba. Fresh from a two-day respite in Puerto Rico, where he engaged in his favorite sport of skin-diving, Vice Admiral Alfred G. Ward went back to sea to command Task Force 136. Once again, low-flying jet reconnaissance planes screeched over Cuba to photograph the state of the Soviet nuclear missiles...
...never want to go over the heads of the people," says Jesus Perez, pastor of Puerto Rico's largest Pentecostal Church. "We want to go directly to their hearts." Never swerving from this philosophy, the Pentecostals have won converts almost faster than they can be totally immersed. Booming throughout the world, the Pentecostal movement has attracted the nominally Roman Catholic people of Latin America with a missionary effort that makes it the fastest-growing Protestant church in the Western Hemisphere...
...such as the Helsinki Youth Festival and the Latin American Student Conference, to plead their case. Politically, they oppose the Revolutionary Council of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, which reportedly has the backing of the United States government, and prefer the more leftist leadership of Manuel Ray, now in Puerto Rico...