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Reaching for the votes of the city's 600,000 Puerto Ricans has become a major preoccupation of New York politicians. Puerto Ricans already cast enough votes to tip a close citywide election, and probably a lot more of them could vote if they were not disqualified by the state's literacy requirement. Last week Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner proposed a way to get around this inconvenient barrier to bigger Puerto Rican turnouts at the polls. If literacy tests could not be abolished entirely, he said, it was "obviously right" that Puerto Ricans should be allowed to take...
...overflow crowd in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Under the Trujillo dictatorship, said Casals, such a visit would have been impossible, but "I am proud to come to this country that has obtained its liberty." Leading a tumultuous final ovation were Dominican President Juan Bosch, 53, and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 65, who arranged the appearance as a "spiritual gift" to the Dominican people...
...group of Costa Rican businessmen who are building the country's first cement plant...
...Stephen's parish in Boston's South End, Cuban-born Father Pastor Sotolongo, 29, tries a person-to-person approach. No civic crusader, he spends most of his 20-hour working day quietly trying to provide the basic material needs-food, clothing, shelter-of his largely Puerto Rican parish. "The people who come to see me," he says, "are emergency cases. They don't have time to go through all the red tape and answer all the questions to get aid from the city...
...mood was reflected at a post-Costa Rican press conference. Newsmen tossed him some pretty sticky questions-and he took them in easy stride...