The San Juan Star (Aug. 29, 1960)

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DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol.

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Tel. 3-8400

No. 254

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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, August 29, 1960 _

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Condemns Red In Hemisphere

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Resolution Is Clear-Cut

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) --The Western Hemisphere for-

eign ministers yesterday approved a_ resolution condemning Soviet-Chinese Commu nist intervention in Latin America, The

ia

U.S. Victory; Castro Hit

resolution represented a clear-cut victory for the United States Professor

To

Head

+which had asked tht foreign

Ticket

ministers to condemn efforts by Soviet Russia and Communist China to extend

CAP Goes On Ballot In Unofficial Count By

A.

W.

MALDONADO

The three-month old Christian Action Party announced yesterday

ge

afternoon

it

had

the Commonwealth

8 a ap Oey OA EOEA A REIT R RSS AC PUREE RRR IS

BEATING THE HEAT—Floating on 4 rubber tube in the Condado Lagoon

found

Hey

Reainacige TORE

a

yesterday Chester Briner of Santurce to spend the weekend outdoors but in the

a way

Shade.

Cool, man!

(STAR photo by Gunter Hett)

By RALPH

ANGLADA

A 14hour convention of some 1,600 members of the Statehood

Pr.

Party

Saturday chose

civil

liberties

fighter,

P.

Amadeo,

as

Santos

didate for senator He was one of

can-

at large. four $uch

se-

nators chosen. The convention also picked four representatives

at

large

atorney

and

picked

Gabriel

de

San la

Juan

Haba

as

a

Chosen torial a

had for

party

with

State Departto

84,000

thus this

year’s

also

peti-

unofficially

announced

its

H

with

Amadeo

candidates

Julia,

Ramiro

as sena-

were

L,

Charles

Colon

Antonia Cabassa viuda do, all renominations.

ly

chosen

tion

was

at the

an

de FajarPrevious-

earlier fifth

and

conven-

senator

at

lerge, party President Miguel Angel Garcia Mendez, who presided at the convention. Under the present electoral

system,

being

chosen

as

candi-

are

assur-

date at large is tantamount to being elected-to the office. Minority

parties,

by

law,

ed of a certain amount in the legislature.

bid

to

who be

last

nominated

sentative from trict at Ponce; (See

lost

as

said

a

repre-

the second disand Santiagé Page

GOP,

to

for

meet

the

inscribing

a

The inscription is still unofficial. State Department legal advisor Jose Iglesia de la Cruz

of seats

week

yesterday

deadline

party.

Renominated for representatives at large were Carlos West-

erband,

noon

legal

16)

the

department

will

announce

whether

party

officially

registered

15. Iglesia, who ceptance of the

the

until

‘not is

Sept.

supervised acpetitions, said

each petition must be cross-checked with 1960 voter registration lists.

CAP Secretary and organizer Eduardo Flores announced the names

submitted

to

the

State

P.R. Officials Fly To Capital To Discuss U.S.-D.R. Break Two

top

Commonwealth

ernment officials ington yesterday

effects

in

flew te Washto discuss the

Puerte

breaking-off

of

gov-

Rico

of

diplomatic

the rela-

tions between the U. S. and the Dominican Republic. Secretary of Justice Hiram Cancio and

Under

Secretary

of State

Dr. Arturo Morales Carrion left unexpectedly for Washington at 9 a. m. yesterday. Secretary Cancio issued the fol-

lowing statement before departing: “The trip comes as a result of the rupture in relations between the

United

States

and

the

Domi-

nican Republic. We are going to discuss:in Washington the effects this could have in Puerto Rico.”

as

candidates

offices.

They

influence

in the

tern Hemisphere. lution

jindirectly hit at Cuba

for permitting

vention. A

for

Wes-

The_rego-

formal

Soviet

vote

of

interthe

20

include:

For resident commissioner: JorLuis

Cordova

Diaz,

former

Supreme Court judge and former commissioner of the Puerto Rico Baseball League.

general

litical science professor at Catholic University in Ponce, as candidate for governor. The party had to have at least 69,223 certified petitions filed by

GOP. Names Amadeo! Senatorial Candidate

missioner

ee

80,000

and

filed

candidates for public office, naming Salvador Perea Rosello, po-

party candidate for resident com-

a

from

tions The

longtime

Re ne

ment

registered election.

Republican

a

Department elective

their

For

representative

at

foreign ministers of the Or-

large:

ganization of American States (OAS) was expected

Jose L. Feliu Pesquera, repre-’ sentative to the House in 194452 and

,56, formerly

dence

of the

Indepen-

late

Party and author of Bill (See CAP, Page 16)

Catholic

Crisis

In

last

night

at

an

open

session. But last night’s vote (See OAS,

The

Page

16)

Caribbean

Three Island Governments Strain Conscience Of Church (Editor’s on

the

Note:

Catholic

general

Church

minican

situation

Republic.

fic problems An

in

persons faithful certain

Rico,

It deals

Cuba

and

with

the

the Do-

area.) +

the

in the Church of some

in this must aspects

Latia

a

to grip

Roman Catholic Church Caribbean today. The governs the spiritual life These whether

first of a four part series Caribbean.

in Puerto

RYAN is causing

of conscience

10 million

is the in the

Subsequent articles will deal with spect

each

By PAUL R. wunusual trinity

conflict

This

Church

area.

-

decide of the].

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are anti-Christ, whether the revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba

is

pro-Communist

and

con-

sequently anti-Church, and whether dictator

Rafael

Dominican

censured more pulpits for his

of human Cuba,

Trujillo

Republic

of

the

should

be

strongly from the 30-year supression

rights. Puerto

Rico

and

the

fore the revolution of Juarez, the

De-

minican Republic are all predominantly Catholic. The population fi-| ; gures are 6.3, respectively.

2.5

and

2.9

million,

If you include Haiti, you arrive Further comment from the government as to the nature of these at. the figure of some 10 million talks with Washington was not Catholics in the Caribbean. They ' (See OFFICIALS; Page 16) ’ ate threatened with what may. be 4

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