Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creation of an anti-Communist alternative which would appeal to the peasantry of South Vietnam. A successful "containment" policy would have had to include certain economic measures. First, the government should have sanctioned the status quo for those peasants who had enjoyed the benefits of the agrarian reforms instituted by the Viet Minh. Second, tax and land reforms of a similar character should have been extended to the remainder of the population. Third, trade between the industrial North and the agrarian. South should have been continued, since only Vietnam as a whole constituted a viable economic unit. Politically, the government...
...implementation of Diem's agrarian "reform" measures in 1957 coincided with the institution of a wholesale terror campaign throughout the countryside. These programs reinstated the landlords who had been removed by the Viet Minh, reinstituted rent, and at the same time failed to provide the peasants with any security of land tenure. All those peasants who had benefited from the Viet Minh reforms or who had supported the resistance movement against the French were considered "subversives" and, like Diem's other political opponents, were either murdered or subjected to torture and confinement in concentration camps...
Blunt Talk. All this made him powerfully popular-and increasingly talkative. In his blunt way, he began to criticize the government in unmilitary speeches. Agrarian reform was moving too slowly, he said. There was no national purpose. Pressure groups of the aristocracy were hindering progress. The country badly needed "an immediate social-economic revolution...
...miles northeast of Bogotá. Wearing khaki uniforms and FALN-type arm bands, the raiders attacked the police post with modern automatic weapons, killing three policemen and a child who wandered into the line of fire. With crisp military precision, they then cut communication lines, looted the government Agrarian Bank of $5,300, snatched the cashbox from the local brewery, and stole arms and ammunition from police headquarters. One of the leaders was a pretty blonde girl of about 19 who was called Comrade Mariela. After two hours, the invaders vanished into the hills, but not before rounding...
...fear that the revolution will descend into dictatorship. Yet thoughtful Brazilians also recognize Castello Branco as a man who, alone among recent Brazilian presidents, is doing what he set out to do. Of 147 bills sent to Congress since the March revolution, 102 have been approved, covering everything from agrarian reform to low-cost housing credit. Foreign capital is flowing back into Brazil for the first time in three years. And some cherished Brazilian ideas are going down the drain-that uncontrolled inflation is inevitable, that a man should be well paid for a job he does poorly, that corruption...