Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked that question dozens of times in Hillaur, a small village in her parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli. The country around her told the answer: acre after acre of sere, treeless, wind-whipped fields, most of which are worked by harijans (untouchables) who sharecrop but do not own the land. Long miles of highway are untarred. Few people can afford the 300 rupees ($33) needed to wire their homes for minimum lighting provided by two light bulbs. Electric irrigation pumps are rare, and even wells fitted with immemorial Persian wheels are few and far between...
...Gandhi was in this bleak corner of impoverished Uttar Pradesh state for a padayatra, the journey on foot made famous 25 years ago by Vinobha Bhave, who for years walked the length and breadth of India asking people to give up one-tenth of their land to the landless. A padayatra has become the customary way for leaders to make contact with their people. In 1959 Mrs. Gandhi walked for four days through her father Jawaharlal Nehru's Allahabad constituency. This year Indira, 58, reduced her padayatra to a mile-long, 50-min. walk through the single village...
Most of the requests addressed to the Prime Minister concerned land. Surplus land in Hillaur was recently redistributed among the landless, with 77 families each getting about one-third of an acre. But one family, consisting of an old man, four women and three or four children, told her: "Most of our land has been taken away from us." How? "It was auctioned by the government, after getting a court order, ten days ago." The Prime Minister immediately ordered that the case be investigated...
...would have spewed at least 300 tons of pollutants a day into the desert air, which is already being dirtied by other power plants in the area. The National Park Service agreed that the plant's emissions would harm the region; some 20% of the country's land managed by the National Park Service-including the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon and Capital Reef national parks-is located within 250 miles of the proposed plant site. Two weeks ago, in an action that probably hastened the consortium's decision, 31 members...
Since 1969, the last time the Souris (French for mouse) broke through the dikes, more than $7 million has been spent on flood control measures. Some townspeople note that farmers have been clearing upstream lands to bring more land under cultivation; this, they feel, may have increased the amount of water emptying into the river and raised its levels. But agronomists say that the main reason for the river's rapid rise is the unusual amount of moisture in Saskatchewan, where the Souris originates; this winter's precipitation was 700% above normal, adding enormously to the amount...