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...love you, lady of Puerto Rico, Like the noble blood that has sanctified The Fatherland of Betances and of Diego...
...gallery, the woman and her companions took back-row seats, observed the proceedings for a minute or two. Then all three whipped out German automatic pistols. The woman opened fire first, walking down the aisle to the front of the gallery, holding her pistol with both hands. "Puerto Rico is not free!" she screamed. The men opened fire a moment later, spraying bullets all over the chamber, pausing only to reload...
...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...
...Luiz Munoz Marin, with the backing of two-thirds of the Legislature, on Jan. 5, rejected an independance Party move to consider President Eisenhower's five-year old offer of Independence for Puerto Rico...
Even if the special investigator assigned to Puerto Rico by the House Un-American Activities Committee does not turn up evidence that the recent shooting was part of an organized subversive plot, he will no doubt term Pedro Albizu Campos a Communist sympathizer and advocate of the idea...