The San Juan Star (Aug. 30, 1960)

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the San Juan Star 1°

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Tel. 3-8400

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San Juan,

Puerto Rico, Tuesday, August 30, 1960

at See Juan, Puerto Bice

ncertain Fate aces uerto Ricans In D.R. (40,000 Seen Affected By Diplomatic Breach

ixon In Hospital With Knee Injury * :

By A. W. MALDONADO Commonwealth officials said yesterday that the fate of thousands of Puerto Ricans

WASHINGTON (AP)—Vice President Richard M. Nixon was hospitalized yesterday. for treatment of an infected knee. He may remain in the hospital two weeks. Herbert G. Klein, Nixon’s press secretary, announced that the Republican presidential nominee had gone to Walter Reed army Hospital after tests showed his left knee was infected with hemolitic staphylococcus aureus.

Klein

declined

to

try

to

inter-

CAP Than

pret the type of infection. Nixon first went to the hospital

last Saturday. At that time, fluid was removed from his knee for laboratory tests. He had injured the knee on a car door during a campaign

N

C, Sinee

trip

to

Aug. 17. that time

bothered

by

© Greensboro,

Nixon

a pain

has

in the

been

knee.

-He told reporters .earlier in‘ the day that the skin had been broken and a lump had formed on his knee. Klein

said

attending

doctors

re-

commended that the Vice Presi. dent remain in the hospital about two weeks. “This

is

a

precautionary

meas-

ure to avoid any permanent damage to his knee,” Klein said. ~Klein said that this will wipe out all of Nixon’s campaign dates until about Sept. 12. Klein said Nixon's

trouble

with

his

knee

present

is

not

ex-

pected to interfere with the beginning of day-to-day campaigning around mid-September. _

' Other than the knee, Klein said, dent

has

“He

no

infection in the the Vice Presi-

Police

By

RALPH police

nounced

ANGLADA an-

that the long-

ber

election

ballot,

will

The

pair,

Independence

“CAP fhoz,”

anger was aimed

commented

Milan.

“in reprisal against forts to block their

ment

of

The tion

‘of

be the

taking new

If

the

Mufioz’s drive.”

a more

in the

sentatives,

noted

that

the

state-

hood party came out in favor of CAP-demanded, religious education for. public school children. the

statehooders

CAP

Milan,

get

a move

New

also

helped

signatures,

added

which

traffic

The

be

Sept.

completed

The ed

to

would

in the

implementa-

the

patrol

system

was

caused by the delay in delivery of 106 new mobile car units. The new cars are undergoing checkups for road safety at a

the

Statehood

Republican

the

add

that

the

checkups

new

every

hasten-

other

curb more

traffie

including

system

violations

sedurity

as-

against

and

com-

1. The

Jorge

Luis Landing

the

current wave of robberies breaking out daily in the city. A high police official said yesterday that pressure from various drivers associations has prompted a slowdown the

the

re-

of

discus-

status

of

as high

Puerte estimates

as 40,000—now

residing

in

the

public.

Since they are all Am-

Dominican

Re-

erican

citizens their status is

marked that the statehood party will be hard hit by the CAP because many voters in the upper

hazy as the result of the diplo-

middie

menwealth

matic

and wealthy classes, which

he

said

“is where

its

strength

switch CAP.

in

from

the

the

CAP

has

cities,’

will

statehood

to

rupture.

2. The U.

role

that

will

S. decides

the

play

Comif

to apply

the

econe-

mic sanctions against the Tra

the

jille government as agreed at

But, in the rural districts of the

island, Landing continued, the creation of the CAP will drain votes

from

Can Both agreed

Mufioz

(See

Marin.

afford to lose more votes than the second-place statehood party.

In

the 1956 elections Mufoz (See CAP, Page 21)

traffic

campaign 20

on

the

JORGE LUIS LANDING ...CAP will take GOP votes

2 Weeks

inaugurated heels

of

a

new

The

main the

official,

who

anonymous, law

was

taxi

associations,

put

asked" to

re-

and

truck

sociations.

Several

traffic law.

terviewed

transit by

STAR

in

that

matters

of

they

yester-

been told not to abuse the new law but to “use their own judge-

ment”

explained

policemen

the

into

the

21)

Blasts Claim Premier's Life BEIRUT,

day

effect

Page

Lebanon

(AP)—

Time bombs planted in government offices killed Premier Hazza Majali of Jordan as- and nine other persons in the Jordanian Capital of Amman a Jordanian ofin- yesterday,

said that since

force has been beseiged by protests from drivers organizations,

TALKS,

\Jordan Bomb

Afford To Lose Some Independence leaders that the “governor can

have

violation.

aims

and

points

range

Aug.

of personnel

patrol

will

major

“But now CAP supporters have their own party,” Milan shrugged. The Voice of Puerto Rico party president

with

are:

Ricans—unofficial

have

14.

system,

assignment

The

to

The sion

ballot.

Delayed

police department of

offer

law.

delay

that it appears

Cars

local garage.

mo-

enforce-

ef-

Milan, an Independence Party legislator in the House of Repre-

radio communications, as plete and set to go. “4,

to

at Mu-

bishop-backed party had failed to win registration, he added, its members would have backed the second-ranking statehood party

tan area and start Thursday, has ‘been postponed two weeks. Also yesterday police were reapproach

Party

Secretary Fernando Milan, Jr. and lawyer Jorge Luis Landing, also agreed that the independence movement will be weakened only slightly by the CAP cam-

pect

derate

J. aon

hurt

to confer

U. S. State Department on the possible effects in Puerto Rico of the rupture in U.S.Dominican diplomatic relations, announced by the U-S. last Friday.

This was the forecast made yesterday by two_leading made the statehood party an attractive alternative if the new separatists. party had failed to get on the

awaited new patrol system, expected to blanket the metropoli-

ported

Sunday

party more than it damages Gov. Luis Mufioz Marin.

System

department

yesterday

HAROLD

Secretary of Justice Hiram

Cancio and Under Secretary of State Arturo Morales Carrion flew to Washington

that it has filed enough signatures to get on the Novem-

For

Patrol The

By

Many

Waiting

———-*by local government leaders.

Will Hurt GOP More Munoz, Sepa ratists Say

The new Christian Action Party, now

complications.

has no fever and continues (See NIXON, Page 21)

in the Dominican Republic is one of the '|major topics being discussed in Washington

P.R. Basketball Team Out Of Olympics ROME, Tuesday (AP)—Puerto Rico was eliminated from the Olympic basketball tournament early today when it fell before Russia, 100-63. The game was held up for over an less than a minute to play when a Russian player and caused the support to topple over, smash-

ficial

said

here

last

night.

Another 50 persons were reported wounded.

The

time

Majali fice

in

was

up

bomb

the ene

of

buried

of

his of-

three

simultaneously,

from

Damascus,

others

were

‘government

that

debris

that

said

blew

reports

Syria.

said

to

be

publications

The

in

the

office

and the foreign ministry. Majali, 44, was regarded in Cairo as one of the spearheads of

the

(See

forces

in

the

JORDAN,

Arab

Page

world

21)


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