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...read and write, reducing the adult illiteracy rate to 16% of the 8,000,000 population. Through peaceful and legal land reform, Betancourt's government has distributed 3,500,000 acres of land to more than 57,000 farm families and invested more than $100 million in agrarian redevelopment. Industrial development projects are luring in such foreign giants as Ford Motor Co., Container Corp. of America, Owens-Illinois, and Britain's Rootes Motors...
...President. He turned his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a peasants' and workers' party, proclaimed himself the candidate of the havenots, promised to distribute 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families, first using former Trujillo holdings, then buying land with money from an agrarian reform tax. His most worrisome tendency, at least to outside eyes, was his habit of resigning his candidacy when things did not go right, in a manner reminiscent of Brazil's unstable ex-President Janio Quadros. A week before election, Bosch furiously withdrew when a minor Roman Catholic priest said that some...
...tramped across north China to the Great Wall, found Mao and spent weeks talking social progress with him. He then hurried home to write Red Star Over China, an ardently naive treatise that predicted the ultimate victory of Mao and his Chinese Communists, who were not really Communists but agrarian reformers...
...from the devastating war years, Greece had runaway inflation, scant capital resources and a technically innocent labor force. Since the free-enterprising government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis took office in 1954, it has stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless, and 25% of those on the land are "underemployed...
...topple. Since taking office nearly four years ago, he has survived street riots, assassination attempts and barracks coups-the last a bloody marine corps uprising at Puerto Cabello naval base last summer. In the meantime, he has doggedly pursued a policy of reform. Under Betancourt's agrarian program, more than 3,700,000 acres of land (mostly government property) have been divided among nearly 55,000 families; 5,000 miles of farm-to-market roads have been built in two years. Illiteracy has been halved to 25%; the number of primary school students has jumped from...