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...armed forces; all have pursued graduate studies. Though still cynical about U.S. values and institutions, the six are now equally skeptical about changing things through mass protest. As a result, many of them verge on a bitter fatalism about public affairs. Still, none have dropped out into drug abuse, agrarian communes or similar escapism. Most have not yet settled into clearly defined careers, but in various ways all are working hard for idealistic goals. So far, not one is out to make money...
...Echeverria's role in Mexican politics is complex. On social and economic issues he is reputed to be a leftist. Echeverria is opposed to the sacrificing of agrarian interests to the program of rapid industrialization that has been government policy. Although it is still too early to see if his administration will be able to fulfill its promises. Echeverria has pledged to have legislation enacted that would substantially help Mexican factory workers and campesinos. There is every indication that he is sincere in this and will be successful. PRI, the party that selected him to be president, is nearly without...
...collapse after 18 months. Still, three major types are surviving, clustered in California, New England and the Great Lakes region. In black ghettos, storefront street academies offer the rigorous college preparation that few minorities get in city public schools. In rural areas, counterculture whites run farmhouse schools that stress agrarian survival skills. Most common are free schools dominated by middle-class parents seeking to foster emotional as well as intellectual development...
...conquering hero, entered the city in the U.S. Ambassador's private airplane. (Endre Fontaine, History of the Cold War, Vol. II, N.Y. 1968, p. 378) Arbenz had raised the minimum wage from 26c to $1.08 a day, allowed trade unions and peasant leagues freedom to organize, and, under an agrarian reform law limiting the vast uncultivated holdings held by the oligarchy, expropriated 234,000 acres of unused United Fruit Company land. He didn't just take it, though. He offered U.F.C. $600,000 in 25-year 3 per cent government bonds which was the value listed on the company...
...grew harsher in the last half of his life. During much of the same period he endured a harrowing succession of business catastrophes and deaths in his family. At the same time, as Geismar points out, U.S. society-Twain's raw material -was also changing. The young agrarian republic was becoming a complex state dominated by big business and the affairs of empire...