Mr. Paret Vélez withdrew.

Emile Griffith and Benny Paret, you remember that?

- Yeah. - So the kid is Paret, I'm Griffith.

- Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder if you can. - It's like Griffith and Paret... in '62.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Paret Vélez (Colectivo de Trabajo por la Independencia de Puerto Rico) took a place at the petitioners' table.

Mr. Paret Vélez (Colectivo de Trabajo por la Independencia de Puerto Rico) said that the problems facing Puerto Ricans were rooted in colonialism and had been accentuated by their current extreme-right Government.

Rivera Reyes, PROELA; Manuel Rivera, Puertorriqueños Unidos En Acción; Héctor Pasquera Sevillana, Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano de Puerto Rico; Wilma Reveron Collaza, Comité Puerto Rico en la ONU; Carlos M. Hernandez Lopez, Frente Autonomista; Edgardo Román Espada, Coalición Puertorriqueña contra la Pena de Muerte; Eduardo Villanueva Muñoz, El Comité de Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico; Ricardo Paret Vélez, Colectivo de Trabajo por la Independencia de Puerto Rico Área de Mayagüez; Leonor Tatil, Soho Art Festival; Sam Manuel, Socialist Workers Party; Nilda Luz Rexach, National Advancement for Puerto Rican Culture and Luis A. Delgado Rodríguez, Alianza pro Libre Asociación Soberana (ALAS);