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...Bosch had entered office last February amid emotional hopes. A left-of-center intellectual and a longtime enemy of the brutal Trujillo dictatorship, he announced sweeping plans for reform. He put an end to the country's police-state atmosphere, cut government spending, and made a start on agrarian reform. But he proved to be an inept politician, stubbornly refusing to compromise. He failed to win over the powerful military. And that ultimately proved his undoing...
...ruling agrarian Haiti is not an easy job. The nation's only communications system, for instance, is a haphazard affair controlled entirely by the army. Daily, the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, goes without electricity for three aggravating and unpredictable hourly periods because not enough power can be generated to supply the city's rather unspectacular needs...
...increasingly influential advocate of economic revision is Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, 50, goateed, urbane boss of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He is a longtime Communist in a land where, as an experienced Western diplomat puts it, "instinctively the old Communists follow the Moscow line, the new Communists the Peking line." Says Rodríguez: "First we must satisfy our population. If we must reduce the tempo of our industrial development in order to produce consumer goods, then we must...
...AGRARIAN REFORM. Since his last re port a year ago, Lopez Mateos has distributed some 5,000,000 acres of land to peasants-more than many Mexican Presidents parceled out in their entire terms. Agriculture and livestock output, still the heart of the economy, showed a 5.3% gain in 1962, though many peasants, still impoverished, remain "by far the country's most fundamental problem...
...them perhaps intended by the author. As a serious attempt to understand South Africa, the book offers only pretensions. Old Africa Hand Stuart Cloete knows perfectly well that the Boer War, like the Civil War, was rooted in the problem of race, was the reaction of a primarily agrarian people to a threat to that "way of life" where the white man rules unquestioned. But this basic fact-in a novel about the conflict that cast in concrete the mentality of the Afrikaner-he chooses to ignore...