Word: agrarian
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...committee, to run against Kekkonen in next month's vote for the presidency. The Conservative Party decided not to run its own presidential candidate, but pledged to remain in the fight for parliamentary general elections in February. Kekkonen's principal support was thus reduced to his own Agrarian Party and the Communists-a stigma he has been trying hard to avoid...
Making liberal use of UPI cables from Havens. Raymont traced his growing disillusionment with Castro's measures. He drew a sharp contrast between the "world of day-of model schools and agrarian reform," and the "world of night --of military tribunals." The regime's disregard for civil liberties, in Raymont's estimation, has outweighed the benefits of its social reform...
...this plan should not be adopted too hastily, for a tragic consequence of the present farm program has been the shriveling of alternatives. Perhaps the country should retain a specified number of surplus farmers. All-out nuclear war would transform the United States into a primitive agrarian society. Thus, to insure the existence of a maximum number of self-sufficient food producers, maintenance of currently superfluous small farmers might be desirable. Moreover, it would probably be wise to establish food storage depots on the periphery of large cities. Surplus commodities stored in this manner (as emergency stockpiles) would...
...with the blood of conquistadores in his veins, Beltran stopped the money presses. He collected neglected taxes, trimmed excess bureaucracy, encouraged exports, curbed imports. The sol steadied, the balance of trade shifted to favorable, debts were paid. Progress is still slow, but enough projects for housing, road building and agrarian reform are taking shape to give Peruvians hope-and to warrant businesslike consideration of a Prado request last week for $29.6 million in emergency loans from Kennedy's Alliance for Progress...
...DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND. In its first 2½ years, DLF granted 24 loans worth $45 million to Latin American nations. Since March, 19 loans worth $100.4 million have gone to 14 countries. Among the beneficiaries: Haiti, with $250,000 for a hemp plantation; Peru, with $10.8 million for agrarian reform and a penetration road over the Andes...