Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, the coalition looks much like the populist alliance of Socialists, Communists and Radicals that brought Chile's President Salvador Allende Gossens to office last year. But while the Broad Front's platform calls for agrarian reforms, nationalization of private banks and foreign trade, and the bolstering of state industry, it covers a much broader political spectrum than the Chilean alliance. Nor is Seregni, a disaffected Colorado, a Marxist like Allende...
Those faceless Eurocrats in Brussels take much of the blame. Another villain is European labor. Suspicious, hidebound, determinedly parochial and frozen in attitudes that were current in the '20s, the unions have become the successors to the conservative agrarian parties of 19th century Europe...
...impoverished colonists know-nutrients could be washed away a few years after the land is cleared, turning it into a desolate wasteland where only scrub brush would grow. "We honestly don't know what is going to happen if the forest is cut down," admits the agrarian-reform program's Jorge Pankov. "But when your belly is so empty that you have to steal to fill it, you're less apt to worry about altering virgin environment...
Service saw no point in fuzzing the issue by using euphemisms like "agrarian reformers" for Communists. Mao declared that his was genuine Communism. But he made a distinction that was to be lost on the West for more than two decades: his was a Chinese, "nationalist" Communism and no carbon copy of Moscow's. Mao hoped for U.S. military aid in the war against Japan. He insisted that after Japan's defeat, the U.S. and the China that he expected to influence or control must be close friends. Mao's Communists, Service decided, must be reckoned with...
...fact, the junta's agrarian reform program, the most ambitious ever attempted in South America, has now swept over all of Peru's 6,000,000 arable acres. Three years ago, .8% of the landowners held 83% of the arable land. Now, owners are allowed to keep only 370 acres; the rest will be paid for in 4% bonds maturing in 20 years. The junta has also passed an industrial law under which all basic industries will be state-owned. Foreign companies are not allowed to own more than 33% of any local industry. In all companies employing...