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In a front-page report, the paper said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will offer statehood to the Palestinians in the "framework agreement" they are due to sign next February and in exchange will demand that the Palestinians recognize West Jerusalem as the Israeli capital; but the paper said in an editorial that "the parties have yet to deal with the heart of the conflict."
Newt Gingrich's disastrous championship of a Puerto Rican statehood bill is ridiculed: Almost no Republican voted for it in the House and Trent Lott has banned the measure from the Senate.
One of the latest words to enter the Abbreviation Cycle of Redundancy Race is Missouri . The “Show-Me” state gained statehood in 1821.
The territory was eventually granted statehood in 1974, the same year that Cancún opened to the public.
When the issue of a Puerto Rican statehood referendum was debated in Congress a couple of years ago, someone wrote to the Washington Post warning that statehood for Puerto Rico would mean creating "our very own Quebec" unless the Commonwealth adopted an official English policy.