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Three decades ago, Roberto Sánchez Vilella forswore the engineering career for which he had been trained and, at the invitation of Luis Muñoz Marin, entered Puerto Rican politics. Muñoz's Popular Democratic Party prospered. Its founder became so revered and pow erful a figure that when, in 1964, he relinquished the governorship after 16 years, he had no difficulty anointing Sánchez, his protégé and closest ad viser, as his successor. Last week Sánchez formally broke with his old men tor by announcing that he would...
Underground Governor. Then, in a far more shattering challenge to Puerto Rican tradition, Sánchez announced to his Roman Catholic constituency a year ago that he was divorcing his wife of 30 years to marry a beautiful younger woman, Jeannette Ramos, 35. At the same time, he said he would retire after his current term. The angry reaction virtually drove Sánchez underground for a time. During last summer's plebiscite campaign over Puerto Rico's legal status, Muñoz, now 70 and in semi-retirement as a senator, came back into the arena...
...Acción Democrática party. The visit was a brief one, though, for there was another party back in Switzerland awaiting Betancourt's ministrations. That would be Renee Hartman Viso, 44, soon to become his wife. Betancourt disclosed that he had divorced his first wife, Costa Rican-born Carmen Valverde, to be free to marry Renee. But his absence during the long divorce proceedings, some Venezuelans believe, may cost Acción Democrática the 1968 election...
...proposals is the $2.1 billion manpower program, under which the President hopes to forge a partnership between industry and Government to provide jobs for the hard-core unemployed. Last year's "concentrated employment program" conducted by the Labor Department identified some 500,000 Americans-mostly Negro, Puerto Rican and Mexican-American slum dwellers-who have never had jobs or who face serious employment handicaps...
...merit." Albert Shanker,*president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, con tends that it would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead to "thou sands" of resignations. Most Puerto Rican and Negro civil rights organiza tions, however, strongly endorse the Bundy proposal in the hope that local control of schools will lead to better education for their children - and they now give such improvement a much higher priority than enforced integration by bussing pupils around town...