Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that effort, Allende appointed a 15-man Cabinet that includes only one Chilean of international stature -Jacques Chonchol, an agronomist who headed Frei's agrarian reform movement but broke with the Christian Democrats because he believed they were moving too slowly on land reform. The new President reserved four Cabinet posts for his own Socialist Party, one more than expected, and gave the better-organized Communists only three. That may indicate that Allende has a healthy wariness of his foremost allies...
Then, during the hysteria Senator Joseph McCarthy was generating, Hofstadter in his Age of Reform pointed to some of the early agrarian, Populist roots of McCarthyism-a native, not a foreign blight. He followed with a full-scale study of the history of American anti-intellectualism, and essays on the paranoid style in American politics...
Died. Pedro Taruc, 68, ranking commander of the Hukbalahap agrarian rebel movement in the Philippines; by gunfire when he was waylaid by an army unit; in Angeles, near Clark airbase. A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers. His death destroys the guerrilla threat to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos...
Pandora's Box. The growing realization that the Green Revolution is creating as many problems as it is solving has spurred a search for solutions. Diversification into crops other than grains is one possibility. Agrarian reform is another, but not if it results in the creation of tiny, uneconomic parcels of land. Boerma suggests agricultural cooperatives in which small farmers would band together to farm a large spread that would lend itself to mechanization. Governments would have to help with credits and the construction of irrigation systems. Barbara Ward recommends creating rural agricultural centers that would provide the "agro...
...National Front defeat would hardly do Colombia any good. Lleras Restrepo has done much to cure the financially sick country during his four years as President. He strengthened the peso through tougher tax collection, a drive on inflation and a strong grip on military spending. He also pushed agrarian reform and a birth control pro gram, notwithstanding the Vatican's opposition. Unfortunately, none of this meant much to the peasants, to whom the diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Lleras Restrepo appears as a somewhat abrasive and distant technocrat. "The lesson," he said, visibly shocked at the closeness...