Word: statehooder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berrios of PIP and Juan Mari Bras of PSP will both run, but they will probably poll together less than 10 per cent of the vote. Governor Hernandez Colon of the Popular Democratic Party will run against Carlos Romero Barcelo, mayor of San Juan and head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP). The PNP derives its support mainly from conservatives in the middle and upper classes, though it appeals to all those who want Puerto Rico to cultivate closer ties with the United States. While as a state Puerto Rico would lose the power to offer tax exemptions...
...those Puerto Ricans who want U.S. statehood argue that the compact is a cosmetic means of perpetuating the island's present dependency and strengthening the Hernandez regime. Mean while, those who want full independence say that it is merely an other disguise for colonialism. The new compact will go to a referendum-if Congress acts by midsummer, then the vote will be later this year-and it is expected to pass overwhelmingly...
...find opportunity. The founding of the Western states, the writing of their constitutions, the building of their cities was as American an epic as the story of the first 13 colonies. These Americans too saw that they could not be decently governed at a distance. They too wanted statehood. The struggle for independence was relived again and again, on the prairies, in the mountains, in the new cities...
...Israeli ambassador accused the U.N. of having "prostrated itself before the P.L.O., which stands for the premeditated murder of innocent civilians, denies to the Jewish people its right to live and seeks to destroy the Jewish state by armed force." Tekoah dismissed any need for Palestinian statehood: "What is Jordan," he asked, "if not a Palestinian Arab state?" He also warned that "Israel will not permit the establishment of P.L.O. authority in any part of Palestine. The P.L.O. will not be forced on the Palestinian Arabs. It will not be tolerated by the Jews of Israel...
...meaningful way to compare the Jewish tragedy in Europe to the tragedy of the Palestinians. One of the many differences is the open doors for the Arabs and the closed ones for the Jews. These closed doors and all that followed caused the Jewish demand for immediate statehood at the risk of everything laboriously built up over two generations. It is this Israeli state which has now begun to recognize a Palestinian entity but not the right to an irredentist Palestinian mini-state...