Word: statehooder
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...currently high unemployment-seem to be content with their ties to the mainland; at a conference of island editors and publishers in Dorado last week, Puerto Rico's Governor Carlos Romero Barceló felt confident enough about bedrock pro-U.S. sentiment among Puerto Ricans to call for statehood. Yet the island's core of ardent independentistas insists on dismissing pro-American opinion. It reflects, José maintains, nothing but political "brainwashing...
With the chances for actually winning statehood seemingly stronger than ever, the P.L.O. is busily polishing up a moderate political image. It has come out against another Arab oil embargo as a way of achieving Palestinian goals; it is also busy purging "undesirables"-meaning Palestinians who profited from looting or black-marketeering during the Lebanese civil war-from its ranks. Rejectionists who cannot accept the idea of Israeli statehood are also free to leave for Libya to work for Muammar Gaddafi, the last remaining Arab leader who still holds the Israel-into-the-sea view. In fact, they have nowhere...
...them was limited, in the first decade especially, to the determined strengthening of Zionist control and the extension of Jewish landownership. The Israelis retained British Mandatory Emergency Regulations, the repressive laws of wartime, to deal with the Arab population--despite the Zionists' adamant opposition to those regulations imposed before statehood. These measures, however, made it possible to evict Arab farmers from their fields, to place unreasonable curfews on villages, to banish certain individuals, to place others under house arrest, and to jail still others without trial and often without any apparent reason...
...Middle East solution--but even if that is not forthcoming, there is much that the Israeli government and populace can do within Israel to defuse the threat of a hostile, unified Arab minority. As time passes, the romantic aura surrounding Israel has given way to the normal headaches of statehood: economic breakdowns, government corruption, social unrest, international disapprobation. With a dwindling immigration rate and increasing unrest among the Sephardic Jewish population, the last thing Israel needs is an antagonistic Arab minority. The official approach of suspicion and suppression, as well as the failure of officials to construct a positive, integrative...
...Washington for hearings on legislation to turn 45.6 million hectares (114 million acres) of federally owned lands-some 30% of Alaska's total area-into protected parklands. The first rumblings of the Alaska land war were heard in 1959, when the vast territory became a state. The Statehood Act allowed the state to select 41.6 million hectares (104 million acres) of Alaska's 150 million hectares (375 million acres) -an area the size of New England, New York and Pennsylvania-for economic development, but it ignored the claims of an estimated 77,000 native Alaskan Eskimos, Aleuts...