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...charge of Puerto Rico, Governor Luis Mufioz Marin, 64, cherishes a hope of making permanent his Caribbean island's unique status as a U.S. commonwealth. Last July he called for a plebiscite late this year to let Puerto Rico's 2,450,000 people choose among independence, statehood or an improved variation of the commonwealth status that he invented 12 years ago as a way to get the benefits of both home rule and U.S. help...
Puerto Rico's Statehood Republican Party provides the only effective opposition there is to Mufioz' Popular Democratic Party. In the 1960 election for Governor, the Republican candidate, Luis Ferre, drew only 252,364 votes to Munoz' 457,880. But the Republicans believe that their statehood cause has been gaining strength recently. In legislative hearings and in private talks with Mufioz, the Republicans complained that Munoz was demanding a decision for or against statehood without any indication from the U.S. that statehood was even possible. Angrily, they threatened to boycott the plebiscite...
Senator from the first day of Arizona statehood, Hayden is a permanent part of the state's political structure, and it is hardly likely he will topple. Even Goldwater has remained neutral...
Alaska. Senator Ernest Gruening, territorial Governor back in pre-statehood days, is challenged by Republican Ted Stevens, a former U.S. attorney only half Gruening's age (38 to 75). But Stevens will probably have to wait a while...
Rights Without Bites. Puerto Rico's Commonwealth arrangement has no parallel in U.S. territorial history. Granted by Congress in 1952, it gives the island many rights of statehood, but without the responsibilities. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, may travel to the mainland without restriction; they need no passports and come under no immigration quotas. At home, they elect their own local government. They are not entitled to vote in U.S. presidential elections, or to voting representation in Congress. But they do elect a "Resident Commissioner," who sits in the U.S. House and participates in debates involving Puerto Rico...