Word: statehooder
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...votes at all, claimed victory because 34.2% of the island's 1,067,526 registered voters stayed away from the polls. Independence received a minuscule 4,205 votes (.6%), but its advocates felt they had won a victory of sorts because the voters had turned down statehood. Those fighting to make Puerto Rico the 51st state considered their strong showing of 273,315 votes (38.9%) a moral victory. The actual victors, of course, were those who supported commonwealth status and emerged with a clear majority of 425,081 votes (60.5%). "This settles it," declared commonwealth's chief proponent...
...drive to retain common wealth status. Ever since, he has been stumping like a young Congressman, speaking to small groups of party regulars and on radio and television. Once a hot-eyed independentista who called the U.S. an "opulent kleptomaniac," Muñoz now argues persuasively, if melodramatically: "Statehood is the vulture that would sit over the corpse of the Puerto Rican economy...
...major opponent is Luis A. Ferre, a politically ambitious industrialist with holdings in cement, clay, iron and glass who was twice defeated by Muñoz in gubernatorial campaigns. Forming a nonpartisan group that is known as the United Statehooders, Ferre has developed considerable appeal to the island's growing middle-income group. "Don't you want to be first-class citizens?" asks Ferre. Statehood, he adds, is coming "eventually-so why not now?" Though the island's major statehood and independence parties have officially refused to endorse the plebiscite, factions of both groups are actively campaigning...
Soft Voice. Johnson unmistakably supported the Israeli cause, although he shrewdly avoided crowing over the Soviet-Arab defeat. Specifically, he put the American imprimatur on Israel's premises for peace: Arab recognition of Israeli statehood, an end to the state of belligerence that has existed since 1948, free use of Suez and the Strait of Tiran, direct Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Yet he also skirted the role of Israeli advocate. "Certainly," he said, "[Israeli] troops must be withdrawn...
...could make a genuine effort to solve the problem of the 1,300,000 Palestinian refugees who lost their land in previous clashes. But the Israelis have more pressing priorities. Their first goal, as Foreign Minister Abba Eban put it last week, is "the acceptance of Israel's statehood." They are likely to demand the right of passage through Suez and to insist on keeping some of the real estate that they picked up during their four-day blitz-most notably Old Jerusalem, the highlands west of the River Jordan running from Jenin through Bethlehem to Hebron, and Sharm...