I appreciate the opportunity to appear before this Committee today
to discuss briefly the educational systems of the United States and the
Soviet Union.
...It is my convinced judgment that no agreement or action
should be adopted that may affect Puerto Rico's ability to
promote its economic development . and general well being
of its people through increassed working ...
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico supports President Reagan's objective
of encouraging politically stable Caribbean nations. Political stability
requires economic strength and growth...
"Of course, colonial status is here being abolished
in a new way. It has been thought, wrongly as I believe,
that there were only two ways of doing so: by granting
Puerto Rico its separate independence or by making ...
The actions of the Trujillo regime, both inside and outside
the Dominican Republic, have been for some time the cause
of grave concern to the United States and the other nations
of the hemisphere.
...The attainment of statehood by Alaska and Hawaii come less than six
years after the adoption of a United Nations resolution concerning the
establishment of Puerto Rico and its two and a quarter million people as ...
I come before this committee to oppose the approval o.f
H. R. 9234, because we believe that it violates the promise
that, in order to obtain our votes which were essential to
obtain the ultimate approval o.f Congress, ...