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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)