Word: agrarian
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...year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." The announcement was made by Cuba's Agrarian Reform Chief Antonio Núñez Jiménez in a speech to a crowd of gun-toting militiamen. Added the Reformer: "We will erect the most formidable execution wall in the history of humanity...
...watch workers boosting norms in factories and marvel at pedestrians doing pre-dawn setting-up exercises in the streets. He travels from city to city (each with its own special Peace Hotel) listening to his highly sympathetic, "open-minded" guide point out the similarities between China's agrarian peasant society and Latin America...
While the tigers of Tammany battled with the lions of reform, Republicans watched the spectacle with unmitigated glee. Said Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater to a Washington audience: "In a savage civil war now raging in New York State between the forces of Carmine De Sapio and the agrarian reformers of Eleanor Roosevelt, our party believes that it is in America's best interest to remain neutral. We entreat you, therefore, Mr. Kennedy, not to lend-lease or supply either side with enough arms or patronage for a decisive victory either way. If this fight can be kept...
...seen noisier days, including one with 20 bombs earlier in the week, but none worse. In place of the usual black-powder noisemakers planted in the suburbs, these bombs were exploded downtown and were packed with dynamite. The provinces were not far behind. Saboteurs on horseback burned out an Agrarian Reform Institute garage in Pinar del Rio, derailed the Havana-Santiago express train at Santa Clara, fired a Havana-Santiago...
Declaring that the time had come "to start saying harsh things," Stone charged that the United States can no longer prevent Cuban efforts to introduce needed agrarian reforms, as it has on "three great occasions" in the past. "In 1933, in particular," Stone continued, "We pulled off about as unneighborly a job as any in our history...