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...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...
COVER: Photograph for TIME by Matthew Klein; label design by Javier Romero...
...experience with the Church, I have found many role models for my moral and political convictions. I admire people like Archbishop Romero of El Salvador, the four American Maryknoll missionaries and six Jesuit priests who were martyred by rightwing terrorists because they dared to speak out for the poor. I look to people like the Epiphany Plowshares, a group of laypersons and clergy who were imprisoned for breaking into a missile assembly plant in Pennsylvania during an anti-war protest. Or a person like Mother Theresa of Calcutta, who devoted her life to helping the poorest of the poor...
...triangle has been rearranged. The New Progressive Party, led by former Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, argues that statehood would mean not only political equality but also more food on the table. The Popular Democratic Party, under incumbent Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, contends that only an "enhanced" version of commonwealth can protect the island's economy as well as its Hispanic culture. Judging by polls and street-corner opinion, Romero's statehood campaign today enjoys momentum. When the Popular Democrats staged a rally in Mayaguez, only 75 partisans showed up. Watching the Ponce parade, Luisa Rodriguez, an unemployed mother of seven...
...former governor added, "If the doors were closed to us for equality [through statehood], we would have to build our own home. Romero-Barcelo said that if statehood fails, he would support independence. "It's a matter of dignity," he added...