Word: land
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...rights in the West Bank and Gaza by the Israeli army should not be condoned by the United States simply because Israel is a trusted ally. The U.S. could and should attempt to use our leverage with Israel--which receives nearly half our overall foreign aid--to implement a land-for-peace policy. Even many Israelis believe this policy would be in the interests of all parties concerned, as well as crucial for preserving human rights...
...desperate as life is in Port-au-Prince's slums, a truer picture of Haiti's plight emerges in the countryside, where some 75% of the country's 6.3 million people live. Land is both the hope of these peasants and the yoke that dooms them to poverty. Over the years, land parcels have shrunk to handkerchief size through repeated division among descendants and illegal seizures by landowners. Even the practice of voodoo has had an effect: some peasants have been forced to sell their land to pay for elaborate religious rituals for dead relatives...
Victims of hurricanes, drought, debts, superstition and disease, peasants are constantly preyed upon. Those with a bit of land are hesitant to improve it for fear of attracting the attention of covetous gros negs, who often hire corrupt lawyers to steal the land on one pretext or another. The rural police, notaries and Tonton Macoutes also seize property with a flourish of phony documents and a bag of city tricks. Even those who try to help the peasants often end up hurting them. When African swine fever hit the pig population of Haiti several years ago, Haitian authorities, under...
...philosophical merits of the animal rights movement are far too scant to outweigh these considerations. Even those who share their presumably deep respect for the natural world should think again before voting for Question 3. By restricting farmers, it makes farming less efficient and forces society to put more land into production, severely exploiting the environment. Furthermore, the intiative is likely to hurt small family farms--who take the best care of their animals--more than anyone, and thus will actually turn domestic animals even more into mere components in the industrial processes of huge corporate agrobusinesses...
Post said the club had no members from Lowell,at least two members from Adams and possibly onemember from Quincy. These three houses best goalong the document's statement that the parkinglot is accessory to land incidental to thehabitation of some undergraduates...