Word: feudality
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...struck three heavy blows last week against the Hoa Hao (pronounced Wha-How), the second of his country's rebellious warlord sects. Diem sent in two nationalist infantry divisions and four amphibious groups against the Hoa Hao, a rowdy private army of dissident Buddhists who run their own feudal entity-and squeeze the peasants with taxes-in rice-rich western Viet Nam. Premier Diem first offered the Hoa Hao a chance to integrate themselves into the national army and form a peaceful political party, but the Hoa Hao replied by raiding Diem's outposts and blowing up bridges...
Next night, the formal Nov. 5 opening will present Beethoven's Fidelia, with tickets at a feudal 5,000-schilling ($192) top, to be followed by another Don Giovanni the night after that. Last week singers were rehearsing on the new stage, gilders were applying the last touches of gold leaf to the auditorium, and the occupying powers seemed to be doing their best to comply with Chancellor Julius Raab's special plea: please leave the country before opening night...
...kids. Burglary. Rape. Murder. The kids run in gangs. The Scarlet Cavaliers. The Shining Knights. They manufacture pistols, carry switchknives and use them. They are loyal to nothing except the gang. They rarely tell on each other. The reason for all this might be larger than children. In feudal law everyone was responsible for something. Every, member of the family was responsible for every other member. In the village this same responsibility obtained. If a child committed a crime his whole family was affected, even punished, and even if his father and mother were not punished they were dishonored...
...Patrón. Vicos' plight was ancient. Spanish conquistadores reduced the Inca population there (and all along the high Andes) to feudal serfdom; with independence from Spain, Peru had merely converted the fief into government property leased at about $800 a year to patrones, who got the Indian workers along with the land. The deadening centuries had stripped the Indians of all their skills, pleasures, and arts, and even of the imagination to conceive of a happier...
Blemishes & Cures. No one, least of all thoughtful Italians, argues that Italy has solved all its economic problems. There are still an estimated 2,000,000 unemployed in a work force of 20 million. Agriculture is still largely backward, and industry suffers from lack of capital and from a feudal fiscal system, in which varying and discriminatory interest rates make it difficult for small businessmen to operate. The textile industry, which has seen many of its markets disappear behind the Iron Curtain, is in bad shape, last year slumped to 117 on the national production index (1938 = 100), compared...