Word: statehooder
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Before leaving, they hung several long banners and spray-painted the office with slogans: FREE PUERTO RICO and STATEHOOD MEANS DEATH, as well as the initials F.A.L.N...
...very charter of the PLO denies our rights to statehood," Tamarkin said...
...statehood question figures most prominently in the Democratic primary, in which 41 delegates are at stake. President Carter enjoys P.N.P. support and is favored, while Senator Edward Kennedy is backed by the Popular Democratic Party (P.D.P.), which wants to retain the island's Commonwealth status. Neither has campaigned here yet, and since the G.O.P. primary occurs in less than two weeks, the spotlight is now on the Republicans. Ronald Reagan dropped out in December, after failing to win the endorsement of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, who is staying neutral, but Howard Baker, Bush and Connally have all done...
...main street of Ponce, whistles shrieked from atop the century-old red firehouse and a loudspeaker in a blue van barked to pedestrians: "El quiere saludarte. Dale tu mano." (He wants to say hello. Shake his hand.) They cheered wildly when he grabbed a microphone to yell, ?"Estadidad ahora!"(statehood now). On the next day, he strolled down Calle del Cristo...
...atop an unfamiliar English saddle, Connally experienced a few nervous moments when the mare bounded down a rain-slicked brick street. In Coamo, he told a questioner that if Puerto Rico becomes a state, "you will first be an American, and second you will be a Puerto Rican." Anti-statehooders seized on the statement as proof that the island's cultural identity would disappear, but Connally later recovered, sort of. "You'll hardly know you have it [statehood]," he told a cocktail gathering, "except for a few more benefits...