Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time in Miami Beach, the feudal, feuding barons of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council (average age: 62) met at the gaudy Americana Hotel. As if aware of possible criticism, they avoided the Americana's pools, eschewed Dionysian pleasures, spent most of their time in worried huddles. At one point a reporter cornered A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany in a corridor, asked him if he thought the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had a responsibility to end national strikes. Meany's face flushed with anger; his fist closed tightly around the cane that he now carries. "We have a responsibility...
...beat back religious leaders who were attempting a three-day strike. All the excitement was over the social reforms of Iran's 43-year-old king of kings, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. After years of hesitation, the Shah at last was tearing the land from Iran's feudal village owners and religious leaders, distributing it to the peasants, and forcing factory owners to give workers a 20% share of their profits...
...little civil war in Yemen last week spluttered on like a defective fuse. The royalist tribesmen trying to put the deposed Imam of Yemen back on his feudal throne made hit-and-run attacks on strongpoints held by the "republicans" of General Abdullah Sallal and their Egyptian allies. In return Egyptian planes bombed the tribal encampments and even crossed the border to blast again the Saudi Arabian town of Najran, the main staging area for supplies sent to the royalists by the nervous monarchs of both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Kings Hussein and Saud...
...goals. We seem to have here a case, all too common, of looking too much at form and too little at substance. It is indeed true that the Bolivian governors have "obtained electoral reforms and the nationalization of the tin industry, as well as the breaking up of large feudal estates." But of what value are these things, from the standpoint of the masses, if they are worse off than before, if it now costs more to produce Bolivian tin than it can be sold for on the world market...
Since then, the Indians have joined forces with the M.N.R. (Movimiento Nacional Revolucianaria), the revolutionary party that is now in power. They have obtained electoral reforms and the nationalization of the tin industry, as well as the breaking up of large feudal estates...