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MARRIED. MARC ANTHONY, 31, crossover Latin pop star; to former Miss Universe DAYANARA TORRES, 25; in Las Vegas. The couple plan to settle in Puerto Rico...
...this 24. He phoned Juan Miguel on May Day 28. Navy bombing range that was the site of a protest 33. The State Department has identified South--as a terrorism hub 34. My --, site of a '60s wartime atrocity 35. This bear can be major or minor 36. Puerto Rico's pro-independence leader, who protested at 28-Across 38. Camp __ (site of the Lockerbie trial) 39. They were grounded by Reagan 41. It's working with the U.N. on a cease-fire 45. Its stock exchange will merge with Frankfurt's 50. "Peek-__!" 51. Mai __ (rum drink) 53. Word...
...played cat and mouse with Coast Guard ships patrolling the channel, the Rosas saw more than 15 other Vieques fishing boats slicing through the translucent blue water to join them. "This is the Borinquen I want to see," said Jose, using the indigenous name for Puerto Rico. "We're learning to stand up for ourselves, for once...
Last week, for the second time in 13 days, Washington was forced into a standoff on America's tropical fringe. But while the Elian raid has torn Miami asunder, the Vieques episode could help Puerto Rico unify. For the past century, the island has been a U.S. commonwealth--a hybrid that gives its 4 million people many of the benefits of Yankee citizenship, such as U.S. military protection, but without the full burdens of citizenship, such as federal income taxes. It has also left them with a murky political identity, fractured among those who want independence, statehood or the status...
...Sanes, who worked as a security guard, was killed by a stray Navy bomb in April 1999, it galvanized Puerto Ricans--including U.S. Congressmen up in El Norte--whose protests shut down the Navy's Vieques operations for more than a year. Last January, Bill Clinton, who feels Puerto Rico's pain--especially now that Hillary needs the votes of New York's Puerto Rican emigres--made an agreement with the island's government. Puerto Rico would let the Navy stay until 2003, using only dummy bombs. In return, Puerto Rico would get, essentially, a bribe: some $40 million...