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Full-Term Presidents. Ecuador had nowhere to go but up. It did. In 1948 Manhattan-born Galo Plaza, onetime football player for U.C.L.A., won election at the head of an independent ticket. Plaza, now 53 and main speaker at the recent Puerto Rican conference of U.S. Governors, gave Ecuador its first census, developed the world's largest banana industry to relieve Ecuador's dependence on witches'-broom-diseased cacao, offered Ecuador "chemically pure" democracy, free of press censorship and police statism. He served out all his four years, the first president to do so in 28 years...
What everyone had long known about Cuba was confirmed in detail last week: Fidel Castro has turned his country into an invasion base. The proof came in Manhattan, when a group of disillusioned young Americans of Puerto Rican descent returned home after going to Cuba to participate in the recent invasion of the Dominican Republic. Propelled by dreams of glory, plus promises of hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said...
...since Congress enacted the statehood bill last March. Never before had such a pageant launched an American state. To the polling places came men in bright aloha shirts and slacks, women in cotton-print Western dresses and loose-fitting, ankle-length muumuus.-They were Japanese, Chinese, Korean. Filipino, Puerto Rican, purebred Hawaiian and haole (Caucasian), and combinations thereof, and they represented together the broad racial spectrum that gives Hawaii its unique vitality...
...that additional plebiscite for seven years, I have changed my mind as to the fact that statehood is economically a complete reality for Puerto Rico. My acceptance of an additional plebiscite now is based on the following fact: the constant debate on status, which is unreal to most Puerto Ricans but which may seem real to persons outside of Puerto Rico, is approaching a point where it is beginning to do harm to our economic development program. The debate is spurious and it should be ended. Therefore, I have stated that I would support a plebiscite if all concerned would...
...Four pilots, 2 demolition experts, 2 radiomen, 2 medics, 3 arms experts or suppliers, a dozen marines, 1 Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 3 Cuban (Castro) rebels, 1 Yugoslav guerilla, 4 Chinese, 1 Costa Rican, 2 Negroes, numerous Korean veterans...