Word: agrarian
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...hastening to Tan Son Nhut airport for evacuation flights home. For North Viet Nam, Thieu's departure represented a stunning triumph. After 30 years of fighting French legionnaires, fellow Vietnamese and American G.I.s, after standing up to the technology and will of the world's greatest power, this small agrarian land?albeit one well supplied by China and the Soviet Union?was finally on the verge of victory. What durable, wily old Ho Chi Minh had insisted on, what his heirs in Hanoi had continued to demand?the departure of the Americans and their chosen government in the South?...
...Portuguese Socialist Party (P.S.P.) draws its support from the upper and middle classes, civil servants and students. It favors limited nationalization of basic industries, agrarian reform, and keeping Portugal in NATO. Party Leader Soares, 50, who spent six years in exile in Paris before the revolution, has emerged as one of the country's most respected politicians for his role in negotiating the decolonization of Portugal's African territories...
...regime, has benefited from the tight organization established when the party worked underground. Despite years in prison and exile, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal, 60, Minister Without Portfolio in the provisional government, has become the best-known politician in the country. The Communist program is relatively moderate, calling for agrarian reform and nationalization of banks and insurance companies. Its heaviest support comes from workers and tenant farmers in the impoverished Alentejo region in the south...
...protesters rushed into the empty auditorium tables. Cries of 'fight back' and 'down with the junta and the CIA, no free speech for Eduardo Frei' filled the room as the crowd settled into seats...." It is ironical to note that Frei, a liberal politician (who actually started the Agrarian Reform expropriations and the nationalization of American companies in Chile) was labeled by these cliche-ridden protesters as "fascist" merely because he actively supports the junta. Another example of this took place a few weeks ago when I spotted a man in Harvard Square wearing a tee-shirt with the Chilean...
Unless the agrarian nations of the Third World become convinced that agriculture must have the highest priority, the world food problem will not be solved. This requires a systems approach involving modern production technology and an infrastructure combining facilities for storage, transport, marketing and credit. Axiomatically, the continuing development of leadership in all sectors is fundamental to progress...