With the relaxed confidence of an old master, Puerto Rico's Luis Munoz Marin, 58, campaigned this month for a third term as the island's governora job first held (in 1509) by Juan Ponce de Leon. Wearing the usual rumpled seersucker, Munoz Marin stopped at roadsides, walked into rural shacks or perched on fences to trade ribald banter and homely philosophy with the jibaros (country folk) who support him. He called meetings of local committees of his Popular Democratic Party, and around tables loaded with bottles of beer and rum chatted with the politicos until long after midnight. Occasionally,...
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