Word: statehooder
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Morales called Puerto Rico's present situation an "offensive anachronism," saying that no people belongs to anyone else, and Puerto Rico cannot be subordinated to the United States. While not advocating formal statehood, he stressed that Congress must accept the cultural identity of the Puerto Rican people...
...Popular Democratic Party's Hernández Colón, who was Governor for four years before losing to Romero in 1976, campaigned aggressively against statehood, insisting that Puerto Ricans did not want to relinquish their 28-year-old commonwealth status. To guard against election fraud, he issued a "call to the trenches" for his followers. They became so stirred as initial results came in on election night that a large crowd marched on the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, where the ballots were counted. They threw rocks at police and at cars displaying the N.P.P.'s palm tree emblems...
Without Syria or the P.L.O., the summit could not register any real progress on the centerpiece of common Arab policy, Palestinian self-determination. It merely reaffirmed the P.L.O. as "the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" and endorsed "independent statehood on Palestinian soil." In so doing, the conference seemed to reject the idea of a Palestinian state in Jordan, which many Arab observers ascribe to the incoming Reagan Administration...
...Democrat Arthur Link. Democratic Governors won re-election in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Utah. In Montana, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden won the top job after upsetting Governor Thomas Judge in the primary. It may be days before the outcome is known in Puerto Rico, where Statehood Advocate and incumbent Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo finished in a virtual dead heat with former Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, who favors keeping the island's commonwealth status...
...states and the District of Columbia, voters put on the ballot a total of 42 referendums. Their actions ranged from a nonbinding vote by five southern New Jersey counties to secede from the state to a decision by residents of Washington, D.C., to take a first step toward statehood by calling for a Constitutional Convention; from the lifting of an eight-year ban on hunting mourning doves in South Dakota to the approval of bingo playing in Texas. Many of the initiatives reflected an impatience with politicians and an eagerness by the electorate to take matters into their own hands...