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...recently retired Victor, sibling rivalry with Jesse has never been intense. Even when the brothers were on opposing squads at the 1979 Pan Am Games, with Jesse representing the United States and Victor swimming with the host Puerto Rican team, the two were each other's biggest boosters...
...Puerto Ricans are a "people who haven't developed a powerful will to become a separate state," Arturo Morales Carrion, a Puerto Rican historian, said last night to an audience of 60 at the Kennedy School Forum...
Morales called Puerto Rico's present situation an "offensive anachronism," saying that no people belongs to anyone else, and Puerto Rico cannot be subordinated to the United States. While not advocating formal statehood, he stressed that Congress must accept the cultural identity of the Puerto Rican people...
Morales said that 18-per-cent unemployment in Puerto Rico sends people to the continent in search of jobs, adding that the status of Puerto Ricans in the United States is a major concern to the Puerto Rican people...
...present conflict in Puerto Rican politics is between the pro-state and the pro-commonwealth factions, which command equal support, Morales said, adding that the independence movement has only 5- to 6-per-cent of the vote in the Puerto Rican legislature...