Word: statehooder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This summer the Democratic Convention gave us some pretty powerful speeches on the need for racial equality. We heard Jimmy Carter plead for attention to human rights. And Bill Clinton endorsed Washington's bid for statehood. But in spite of some finely orchestrated platitudes, the party of Congress has done remarkably little for an area over which it has so much control. Members of Congress and their staff have been shot near their offices, and ambassadors robbed near their embassies, but you haven't heard--and you won't hear--anyone advocating some help for this poor, murder-a-night...
...entire postcommunist world there exists an imminent danger of nationalistic and ethnic conflict. In some cases nations were not able to search freely for and find their own identity and form of statehood and gain their independence for tens or even hundreds of years. We cannot be surprised that now, when the straitjacket of communism has been torn off, all the countries wish to establish their independence and self-determination...
...Washington has been studying the Canadian question privately, but its reports are scarcely more definite than official pronouncements. There is nothing definite America could profitably say. Before he began his run for President, Patrick Buchanan wrote columns suggesting that the U.S. welcome the western and Maritime provinces to statehood. Canadians shouldn't worry. Among the obstacles to such a scheme is ethnic etiquette here: we could scarcely take on several dozen white-bread Congressmen without boosting Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to statehood...
...stunning political metamorphosis. After August's aborted coup, Kravchuk, then chairman of the Ukrainian parliament, straddled the fence, neither endorsing nor categorically condemning the coup leaders until failure was no longer in doubt. In quick succession, he resigned from the Communist Party and anointed himself the main champion of statehood. His 11th-hour conversion coincided with the political awakening of a majority of the republic's 53 million citizens...
...alert signal has been sent loudly and unavoidably to those opposed to statehood. It remains on their hands to listen to the voice of history and adapt their expectations to reality. They can either resign themselves to the notion that the needy pockets of the island's poor are mightier than their hearts, or they can refuel the struggle for the defense of our national identity and right to self-determination. The hope of Puerto Rico lies in their ability to look intimidatingly at the eyes of fear--and defeat it at its own game...