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Kansans aside, the primary is much involved with a uniquely Puerto Rican issue: statehood. Over nearly three dec ades of Commonwealth status, sentiment for making Puerto Rico the 51st state has grown steadily, and one recent poll put it at 55%. To boost that cause, the island's majority party, the New Progressive Party (P.N.P.), sponsored the 1977 legislation establishing the primaries, thus ending the custom of party leaders selecting convention delegates. "The primaries are a giant step toward promoting and achieving statehood," says Hernán Padilla, Republican Party executive vice president. "They take us into the direct...
...members with full legislative, executive and judicial authority over the territories. Israel's chief negotiator, hard-line Interior Minister Yosef Burg, complained that this amounted to a "Palestinian parliament." He told TIME: "The Egyptians look upon autonomy as merely a corridor leading to Palestinian statehood. We are very allergic to anything that smacks of statehood...
...fact remains that Oklahoma! is as anachronistic as the surrey with the fringe on top. More than any other theater form, the musical mirrors the social milieu in which it is born. This show's ostensible locale and time span are Indian territory, now Oklahoma, just before statehood. But its real dateline is U.S.A., 1943. It exudes robust confidence, the abiding force of the individual will, and a subliminal, but immutable, determination to defeat the Nazis and the Japanese...
More broadly, the left-wing terrorist groups oppose any movement of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico toward statehood. If he is re-elected next year, Governor Carlos Romero Barceló has promised to hold a plebiscite in 1981 to let Puerto Ricans choose between statehood, independence and the status quo. A second cause for protesters is the Navy's determination to keep using Vieques for maneuvers...
...course, the special-interest dominated Congress, which, among other things, offered statehood to Norway and prohibited the importation into the United States of prunes, shredded wheat, ice skates, bow ties and corduroy, was the last straw for conventional American government. An angry mob forced the "Horrible Hundredth" Congress out of the country, and Walter Cronkite routed John-John Kennedy in the first video-election to become the first Anchorman of the United States...