Word: agrarianism
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Islands in the Main. The unhappy exception to the expanding national experience, says Author Boorstin, was the South. Its cities were not intellectual and cultural centers. Its planter-family leadership was generally rural and withdrawn. Its economy was agrarian and tied increasingly to a single crop. Its immigrants (the Negroes) were never assimilated, but were held apart in an arbitrary and bifurcated social structure. Its legal system depended on a punctilious, vague, and largely unwritten code of honor. And its preachments on the state's right of secession nourished a colonial mentality in the South long after the rest...
...middle-of-the-road liberal and a foreign minister under ex-President Juan Bosch. "We are a country," said García-Godoy in his inaugural speech, "at the brink of an abyss. We must react with honest administration, intensive popular education, the establishment of a civil service, an agrarian reform, an armed forces which is completely nonpolitical...
...Saturday, speakers will cover the military, economic growth, agrarian problems, and postwar British and U.S. policy in Iran...
Third, Johnson has made a speech launching a peace offensive. He understands, as do the Russians and Chinese, the advantages of talking peace while escalating the war. Fourth, Johnson is trying to coax the South Vietnamese government into enacting agrarian reforms. This is the best possible moment for such reforms, since the Vietcong has boosted land taxes in some of the areas it controls almost to the levels demanded by the old landlords. This was necessary to support the increasing number of Vietcong regular troops. The peasants in affected areas have retaliated by defecting and by giving the Southern army...
...soldiers ousted Goulart not just to rescue the country from Communism but also to impose a semblance of order on its chaotic political and economic life. In the twelve months since, a calmer, somewhat chastened Congress has passed more than 200 new laws and constitutional amendments. Among them: agrarian reform, a complete income-tax overhaul, and a law revamping the banking system. The national budget has been cut by 30%. The cruzeiro currency, once skyrocketing toward its namesake Southern Cross, has started to level off, and the cost-of-living increase, Brazil's chronic bugaboo, has declined...