Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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...
...exchange clearly had been well-planned. Puerto Rico is not likely to ask for independence, nor is it liable to opt for statehood. Commonwealth status suits Governor Muñoz and the island well. Muñoz wants his people to ratify it both for their own protection and as an answer to the Castroites, who ridicule the island as a "perfumed colony" of the U.S. He himself is Commonwealth's most ardent champion: he and his pro-Commonwealth Popular Democratic Party have swept into power in four consecutive general elections, the last time in 1960 with an overwhelming...