Word: agrarianism
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...while escalating the military pressure in the regime. Spokesmen for the front have issued a call for Somoza's immmediate ouster and for free elections to be held, by a provisional government in which the FSLN would be represented. The demands of the Sandinistas include sweeping reform of the agrarian structure, nationalization of the banking sector, concentration of social welfare programs and education in particular, the establishment of diplomatic relations with socialist countries, and the expropriation of Somoza's massive business empire...
...last night's hockey tilt would have been the clincher. A win last evening and Dartmouth would have pulled out of the Ivy League, expelled all of its females, and become one of those agrarian-type prep schools where an expert cowmilker is considered a jock...
...money, search for love and adjust to the passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped by the volatile social forces that remade Italy during and between the World Wars. Eventually their isolated agrarian community becomes a microcosm of a nation battered by Fascist, socialist and industrial revolutions...
This was the reason for creating a "revolutionary focus" in Bolivia. Che was an agrarian revolutionary; he didn't believe that revolution would come about when the time was right, led by workers in the cities. A revolution could come about anytime the population was oppressed, if only their resentment could be channeled into a revolutionary force. In Bolivia, they could not be. Organized in the fall of 1966, the group blundered about for eleven months. Che made many tactical errors. Instead of expanding, as the poor rushed to join them, the group suffered steady losses in skirmishes and from...
During the coming decade, the government of the Republic of Kenya hopes to decentralize the management of its agricultural production, granting responsibility for most agrarian planning and development to Kenya's 30 regional governments. The program, the Kenyans hope, will help speed the country's rural development, as well as defuse intertribal tensions in the East African nation...