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...signed by the leader of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalists, Pedro Albizu Campos (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...pilgrimage. He and his fellow plotter had known each other only two weeks. But they had agreed that the President should die, and that it was their sacred duty to kill him. Why? With flowery Latin eloquence, Oscar Collazo cried that his countrymen had been "enslaved" and that Puerto Rico's politicians were "tools" of the United States...
...morning last week, a green sedan rolled into the palm-shaded cobblestone square before San Juan's Fortaleza, the 300-year-old residence of Governor Luis Mufioz Marin. Out of the car burst six members of Puerto Rico's desperate little Nationalist Party. Armed with pistols, rifles and a machine gun, they sprinted for the palace entrance. Yelling "Viva Puerto Rico libre," one Nationalist got off a wild submachine-gun burst. From the arcade, from parapets, from rooftops, guards poured fire down on the attackers...
...bloody little battles, the guardsmen hunted down the terrorists with bazookas, tanks and planes. Desperate and determined as they were, the rebels were no match for the soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously. He wanted to cast no cloak...
Although Puerto Rico will hold an important referendum next June on drawing up a constitution, Marin expects to keep his appointment here. Announcing that the governor would give the lecture series, Mason said that he has been in close contact recently with Marin, and that Marin had not changed his mind on coming...