Word: statehooder
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Some Puerto Ricans do support statehood because they like the political symbolism of being American citizens, Diminguez said...
...smaller, more influential group supports statehood because it would "close off the dangers of drastic social change" such as communism, he added...
...There is no Puerto Rican mandate for statehood," Jorge I. Diminguez, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday. The recent election won by the prostatehood party was decided on economic issues and the statehood issue was deliberately excluded from the election beforehand by the winners, he said...
...hope that the island eventually will become independent," Miguel A. Echavarria '79, a native of Puerto Rico, said yesterday. But he added he preferred a commonwealth to statehood, saying that he did not take Ford's proposal seriously and doubted that anyone else would...
...somewhat unrealistic, since "home" for most of the Palestinians means not the West Bank but towns within Israel that they might expect to visit some day but certainly not to liberate. Actually, what the Palestinians want most of all is the sense of national identity that would arise from statehood. Just as many Jews in the Diaspora were given a new sense of pride and hope by the creation of Israel; so also would the Palestinian refugees escape from the tarnish of being second-class citizens of nowhere if a state of their own were founded...