Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hemisphere's 22 nations. Described by Garcia Bustillos, the Venezuelan Congressman who opened the meeting, as "international but not an International," the Christian Democrats declare themselves dedicated enemies of colonialism, capitalism and Communism. They preach a social revolution that must use orderly and just means. They advocate immediate agrarian reform, demand careful state regulation of corporate profits, and complete labor union, freedom. Says Leónidas Xausa, 28, city councilman in Pórto Alegre, Brazil: "The future of Latin America will be decided between Christian Democracy and Communism...
...Front (Frente), a fragile union of five organizations that held much the same point of view as their "coordinator," Manuel Antonio (Tony) Varona, 52-that "the need for agrarian reform in Cuba is a myth." The land expropriated by Castro, says Varona, onetime head of the old-line Auténtico Party, should be returned to its original owners except for "about 15%" that is not productive. Later, another organization came to the CIA's attention: the People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.), led and founded by Manuel ("Manolo") Ray,* 36, a soft-spoken engineer whose talent for organization...
Thomas pointed out that from the founding of the republic until the death of Henry Wallace's agrarian party in 1948 there had always been some considerable movement or body of opinion advocating a thorough change in the status quo. The lack of a radical party, Senator McCarthy notwithstanding, is uncharacteristic of America, he said...
Your article on local support for education [which described a device, based on property taxes, for evaluating school districts' local support for their schools] is seriously misleading. In the good old agrarian days, you could measure community support of schools solely via the local property tax. But those days are gone. Thousands of school districts are now more than half supported by state and federal funds. The School Management survey measures today's effort by yesterday's standards, which is hardly the way to the New Frontier...
...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...