Word: feudality
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...BOLIVIA has come a long way since 1948, when a La Paz newspaper carried an advertisement: "For sale-200 hectares of land, 47 hogs, 83 Indians." Since the 1952 revolution that toppled the country's feudal tin barons, the Spanish criollos, who make up a mere 15% of the country's 4,000,000 people, no longer traffic in serfs, and most Indians have their own plot of land. Yet, on the 12,000-ft. Andean plateau, where 75% of Bolivians live, the peasants still sleep on dried llama fetuses to cure what ails them, still subsist mainly...
...convince itself and the people that the war continues because of aid from China or Russia, even when the facts clearly demonstrate that the aid is marginal. The true impetus of these wars stems from the fact that the Communists have identified themselves with the protests against the proto-feudal governments that still hold power in many backward countries. The Communists support the reform movements: they do not actually create them. On principle, the U.S. only opposes the Communists. In fact, the U.S. finds itself fighting reform because the Communists are urging it. Almost as necessarily, the State Department turns...
...supremacy, even our bomb, cannot prevail over China's 700 million people. China warns it will not sit idly by if we attack, and made good a similar threat in Korea in 1952. Must we risk World War ITI to settle a pint-sized civil war in a feudal enclave 7,000 miles away...
Splendor & Slime. David Stacton has been brilliant and exasperating before this. In a dozen earlier novels he has illuminated dark corners of everything from ancient Egypt to feudal Japan, from the gory Renaissance legend of the Duchess of Amalfi to the aftermath of the assassination of Lincoln. In each, over the violent pulse and slash of ancient action broods a satanic modern intelligence. He is unique for the wit and sinewy pertinence of his asides. And until now, his story lines have also been clearly muscled, if often knotty...
...will try again. For if the Kennedy coalition can substantially curb his influence, they will be able to reduce the power of the groups that support him--the Liberal party, the majority of the reform movement, and organized labor. Then they can divide the party into a series of feudal baronies, each county leader independent of the other, all owing allegiance to Kennedy. New York will have been transformed into another Massachusetts...