DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol. I No. 265
Tel. 3-8400
Puerto | Many Still In Doubt
Hits GOP
But Nixon Lagging;
‘Bigotry’
Much Interest Seen
MALDONADO
PONCE—Gov. Mufioz resumed his campaign for re-election yesterday with a blistering attack on the mt
Party, eee
with “ailure to oppose great danger to Puerto Rico poli-
of
over
Women
3,000
who
Ponce
jammed
the La Perla Theater and overflowed into~the street. He arrived here’ after a trip through uitas and Orocovis where he had continued his first-hand inspection ‘of. last week's flood damages. “It would have been a tragic
moment
for Puerto
Rico,”
Groggy FloridAdads Up
Donna's Damage
Mu-
the
beginning
of
the dangers of religion in polities—not as a Popular, but as a Puerto Riean,” Mufioz ‘aid. Expected Warning
the
governor
its
said
political « Voices
wale
Christian
started
leaders
with
him
ot oe
the
expected
ail
he
to. raise
their
in warning
seen
the
lngion. called, tae’
grok
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re
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dential
preference
of the
from
con-
a presi-
both
issues,
By ROBERT D. LANE
English’ 9)
the: Insular
guber-
Vezciet election, New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s foreign policy, and religion in mh Politics.
é
a. (major
(Thit is the first in a series articles’
on
New
York
of
City’s
Puerte Rican vote.) Interviews grocery
were
stores,
Sets ais capt ee Brave Moscew is calm:
But
conducted barber
in
shops,
have been throngh
it all be-
are
to
jforeign
They give
affairs mean) acthing as
long as they are sure, as they fore. still are, that war is not close. “People” is a big word. There|There are many who regard. all
many
Russians
whom'politics
as
they
regard
the
in
warning
of
and
similar
disasters.
nements. The result: some stermy indications politics is becoming serious business in the “barrios” of Nueva York. Here’s the way Puerto Ricans
preciated the request, but “I believe the work of such a committee would be duplication af work now being effectively car-
reacted
agencies.’
test: “If
to
the
Presidential
con-
Presidential
election
was | were héld now (today), for whom (See PREFERENCE,
cow
ried out The
the
Page 20)
early
this
summer.
by
other
Senate
officials
president
believed Governor, Munoz,
quick
and
efficient
said
and he
‘‘by ;his
attention to
(See PIP, Page 20) 2
Police To Test Motorized Patrol
His
desk was still littered with piles ef
papers
wreckage the
thoughtful
Russians
representing
of months
the
of patient
negotiation.
Kremlin. there’s fio guarantee Gi even in time the Nikita Khrushchev can always ecentrol them as he would like. clouds will pass again. But this is nothing new. We're Their thoughts were best ex- back where we were two years pressed perhaps by an experi(See COLLAPSE, Page 12) enced Western diplomat in Mos-
They
laxity
handling the floods, and to recommend steps to be taken in future
churches, clubs, homes, and on Quifiones wired Concepcion de the front stoops of decaying te- Gracia Saturday that he ap-
znd the rasp of the radio, who talk and the Westernersin “Oh, for ai moment I fear r of tegrating their midst see a familiar pat- the| worst,” the diplomat said. im the “When these things, get. going, mer of disintegrating tern
Soviet-United States relati not alarmed. They seem to be sorry, not angry: the impression that _ they
Senate President Samuel R. Quifiones has rejected an Inde pendence Party request for a Senate inquiry into last week’s flood toll. Sen. Gilberto Concepcidn de Gracia, president of the Puerte Rieo Independence Party, had asked that Quifiones name a special Senate committee to investigate whether there had been
any
Russians Are More Sorry Than Angry Over Breakdown Of Relations With U.S. EDITOR’S NOTE: Following és the first of four articles + by a correspondent of The New York Times who has just | ¥& returned after three years in Moscow. By (X FRANKEL ‘New Wi Times News Service
Denies Bid For
| Flood Inquiry
survey | con-
Spanish), a reporter also, tapped Puerto Ricans for their opiao on the statehood and sta-
in’ Wash-
Oo
some
i
ee
ction
movement,
EE e
When Party
iedte
i ute [ f
from
fg if E i
warned
o
fioz said, if he himself had not Taised his voice: against religion in. from the be “f have the honor of having
7
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were
gathered
seven-part qu
‘5
Assembly
Popular
(D-Mass.)
num-
Ricans still
clusions
tionhire (in
é
to Puerto Rico.” * Mujfioz spoke to an enthusiastic
zé 2 i eB
could get trom this great danger
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it
a i HE : ff e F nu iW i
advantage
an astonishing
These
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political
F. Kennedy
haven't madeup their minds.
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see_what
But
ber of Puerto
sae
The governor, in one of his strongest -political attacks of this campaign, said the Republicans did not say anything about religion in politics, “waiting to
~
in
Sen. John
commanding alopsided lead over his Rem
g
religion
”
Cerrespendent
lican rival Vice’ President + Richard M. Nixon:
oes
mixing
ed with
Bet
of tics.
ashington
NEW YORK ~The scramble for votes among New York's Puerto Ricans has open-
p
publican
By WlWALTER S. PRIEST
é
A. W.
(BEALE SE ELE
By
A
Mutoz
still hope
that
ago.”
fect throughout the metrepeli-