Word: statehooder
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...simile "great retaining wall" was used throughout the campaign as the wall that permanently separates the extreme right, which advocates statehood, from the extreme left, which favors independence from the U.S. By avoiding a confrontation between the extremes, the commonwealth retaining wall will serve to prevent conflict...
...Hawaii went, Puerto Rico will not go. That seemed to be the message handed down by the island's voters in this month's election. They turned out of office Governor Luis Ferré, 68, an advocate of statehood, and installed in his place Rafael Hernández Colón, 36, a handsome and articulate supporter of Puerto Rico's 20-year commonwealth ties to the United States...
...cast doubts on the future of Ferré's New Progressive Party, which broke the Popular Democratic Party's 28-year lock on the Governor's mansion in 1968 largely because of a major split in its ranks. With Ferré out of office and his statehood platform discredited, the Progressives will likely join Puerto Rico's myriad other minority parties. As if in recognition of the fact, Ferré announced his retirement from active politics shortly after the election...
...heart attack; in Amritsar, India. As spiritual and political guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic cult concentrated in India's Punjab region, Sant Fateh Singh used public fasts and periodic threats of self-immolation to pressure the central government to grant his people statehood within the Indian federal system...
Hawaii voted for a Republican President for the first time since receiving statehood in 1959 Southern states went heavily for Nixon. In some of them, he received over 35 per cent of the vote...