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When Cory Aquino came to power last February, one of her key promises was to implement a genuine agrarian reform policy. Now, with less than a month to go before the members of the country's first post-revolutionary Congress takes their seats, the question is: will...
Currently, Aquino holds complete executive and legislative power, including the power to draft and implement the proposed Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The proposal calls for the Philippine government to purchase land in installments from landowners and sell it back to tenants. But when Congress site on July 27, the power of legislation will be transferred. The matter will be out of Aquino's hands...
...also sponsored a fast earner this yearwhich raised over $2500 for an agrarian collectivein Zimbabwe. Additional funds from that fastsponsored a seminar which taught 100 singlemothers various skills to enhance their incomes
...offer. It brought us David Letterman, for instance. But if the creators of Hoosiers are to be believed, then every community in the state has nothing better to do for five months of the year than to follow its high school basketball team from quaint agrarian town to quaint agrarian town, living and dying by their every dribble...
...there to learn as much as I could and to share my views with the Minister of Agrarian Reform," Thomas says. "But I certainly do not have the impression that when Harvard talks Aquino [necessarily] listens...