Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lin, while no less a soldier than Peng, can be expected to hew to the party line more closely. And to help him stamp out any disaffection in the army, he will have the help of a new chief of staff: Peking's No. 1 policeman, Lo Jui-ching...
The men who were replaced were understandably bitter, and none more so than the staff of the old San Francisco hospital. Stanford will support the hospital only for another year while staff members try to find a charitable organization interested in keeping it open. After that, the hospital is on...
Governor Luis Muñoz Marin likes to think that Puerto Rico's commonwealth relationship to the U.S. is "like a tree; it may grow, but not into any other kind of tree." Last week the signs were that, despite Muñoz Marin's eloquent opposition. the...
First he proposed a plebiscite to choose between statehood, commonwealth and independence. This idea died when the opposition Statehood Party, which is the island branch of the mainland's Republican Party, would not buy his condition that the vote settle the question "once and for all." Last week, after...
...postwar growth rates remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...