Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gardner Dickinson plays Mason Rudolph at the Guatemala Country Club in Central America. Gene Sarazen and Jimmy Demaret are the commentators for the match...
Peking is also having difficulty in pulling the nation as a whole back from the precipice of the civil war nearly brought on by the revolution. The central part of China is now fairly well pacified, but feuds rippling out from the revolution are still roiling such remoter provinces as Tibet, Yunnan and Fukien. Despite the army's efforts to control the recent harvest, the peasants are hoarding a larger-than-usual share of the grain crop. Thus, despite a better harvest than last year, Peking's take has been poorer...
...guerrilla uprising led by Che Guevara and his Cubans. The guerrillas gave Barrientos and his government a bad time for several months, but since Che's death the band has been whittled down to about five men, on whom the Bolivian army is closing in this week in central Bolivia. With their campaign of violence and terror, Castro's followers did what Barrientos had never been able to do: consolidate and unify public opinion-however temporarily-behind the government. As a result, President Barrientos has emerged far stronger than at any other time in his three turbulent years...
...care for fish. He expanded cattle herds, but the distribution system is so bad that most of the beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt" of land around Havana and plant it with fruits and vegetables. Many workers have no choice about where or when they labor. Army troops, militiamen, bureaucrats and even cabinet ministers are expected...
...central concept behind the community protests was community development: the need to permit untrained black people to plan their own lives, and in that way acquire the experience necessary for getting better jobs...