Word: agrarian
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...than was healthy. In a characteristic compromise last week before the holiday began, Kassem reshuffled his Cabinet, adding three minor-league Communist sympathizers (including Iraq's first woman minister, a practicing gynecologist), but effectively demoting the once powerful fellow-traveling Minister of Economics Ibrahim Kubba to Minister of Agrarian Reform...
...city hall is a 40-ft. billboard showing the major landholdings of Oriente province. Under a sun that bears down like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched hut, a cow and a pig. "I am going to register for more land." Chimes in Bootblack Ruiz Marino...
Death Penalty. As in any army-run country, there is fear. The big ranches of central, cattle-raising Camagüey province have been seized by the army, pending expropriation by the Agrarian Reform Institute. At a seized ranch, a guajiro showed up one morning last week and told the landowner that he was joining the soldiers as "administrator" of the land. "I'll be moving my family into the main house," he added...
...order "intervening," i.e., putting under government control, all cattle ranches larger than 3,316 acres (25,000 acres of it owned by Texas' King Ranch). Armed soldiers in twos and threes marched into 400 ranches and took over 2,345,340 acres. As soon as the Red-tinged Agrarian Reform Institute can calculate what part of each ranch the owners will have to give up, intervening will become expropriating...
...lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend the revolution." His Agrarian Reform Institute boss, Antonio Núñez Jiménez, a longtime Communist-liner, said opponents should "buy a plane and fly out of the country before the people give them what they deserve...