Word: statehood
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Then there is the issue of Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code, which permits U.S. companies to shelter the profits of their Puerto Rican subsidiaries. Now worth about $3.4 billion a year, this huge tax break was intended to create industry and jobs. To the statehooders, both the commonwealth and its chief economic prop, Section 936, are obsolete because they no longer produce much economic growth. Rossello argues that Puerto Rico can go forward only with "full participation, with all the rights, all the privileges but also all the responsibilities" of statehood. While he makes the transition sound easy...
...would accept a deal as long as I knew that in the end I would have an independent entity." Nusseibeh believes that this will happen, that the Israeli government is moving toward accepting some kind of Palestinian state. A key Israeli official said last week, "Actually, the road to statehood is open to the Palestinians. It is long, but it is open." A Labor Party official seemed to confirm that privately. The long-standing Labor policy called for returning much of the West Bank but retaining a broad security zone along the western bank of the Jordan River, where there...
...language issue is linked by some Puerto Ricans to the campaign to make the island America's 51st state. Rossello is pro-statehood, and so is a majority of the legislature. Carlos Romero-Barcelo, Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the U.S. House of Representatives, has only limited voting rights in that body, and he calls the new law a step toward full representation. Says Romero: "We in Puerto Rico want to be viewed as citizens...
...unlike the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico--engulfed by the political storms of statehood movements--Guam is mostly plagued by storms of the natural kind: typhoons and hurricanes such as those that touched down on the island in the past few months...
...Social Ethics Herbert C. Kelman, a specialist in negotiations, pointed out, "Those Israelis who favor withdrawal from the territories are now basically thinking about some form of a Palestinian state as the best arrangement...so it's silly for the U.S. administration to make a policy that opposes Palestinian statehood outright...