Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centuries the Kurds have dominated an area that encompasses parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the Soviet Union. They have steadfastly maintained their own language, customs and agrarian life. Modern Kurdish history has consisted largely of the ongoing struggle for some measure of independence from the central authorities of the more powerful states that Kurdistan straddles...
...agrarian reforms are a failure, and they are being made to fail by corruption and debt. Let the Reagan Administration say it's a success. They 're liars...
Initially, the land-reform program was viewed with distaste by the Reagan Administration: the White House did not approve of government expropriation of private property. Gradually, however, the Administration has embraced agrarian reform as the kind of worthy effort in El Salvador that justifies large accompanying doses of U.S. military aid. Duarte left no doubt in Washington last week that, although he would water down some of his more liberal economic views, he would not sacrifice land reform to please El Salvador's conservative business community. On the contrary, Duarte's election could accelerate the process...
...audience to march through town as a way of drawing attention to the May Day rally. The demonstrators complied. When the parade returned some 30 minutes later, however, only half of the participants returned with it. The reduced crowd of 2,000 faithful remained to hear Nicaragua's agrarian reform minister, Jaime Wheelock Román, heap scorn on Nicaragua's Roman Catholic hierarchy for suggesting that the government should negotiate with the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas, who are waging hit-and-run warfare along the country's borders. Yet the generally desultory nature of the festivities...
Perhaps an even more far-reaching change has been the introduction of agrarian reform, another program sponsored by the U.S. The break-up of large landed estates has fundamentally eroded the power of the authoritarian elite and benefited tens of thousands of Salvadoran peasants. The redistribution of land, while in many cases working imperfectly and under attack, nonetheless represents a fundamental break with El Salvador's oligarchic past...