Word: landless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moslem mullahs (priests), whose shrine lands were up for leasing to Iran's landless farmers, did not like the idea at all. Students protested the Shah's dissolution of the Majlis (parliament) a year and a half ago after the legislators rigged elections, then crippled the royal land reform bill with 93 amendments. Since then, ruling by decree, the Shah has distributed 2,000,000 acres of private land (with compensation to owners) to some 50,000 peasant families in 3,500 villages...
...landlords of Fars have fought the land distribution law by helping to foment street riots in Teheran, falsifying ownership records with the connivance of provincial officials, forging ballots in local elections. Recently, the landlords won powerful allies by enlisting Moslem mullahs who are using their pulpits to frighten illiterate, landless peasants out of demanding their legal rights...
...wing (he did not oppose the Suez invasion), he was picked last year to succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...
...each. Throughout Egypt, 1,650,000 acres so far have been seized from the big landlords by the government, but distributing it is so laborious a bureaucratic process that so far less than half of that land has been parceled out-to one-twentieth of the country's landless peasants...
...regards the President as the living symbol of the nation, and for Italy's paradoxical mood of economic prosperity and intellectual concern, the election of Segni was remarkably appropriate. A wealthy gentleman farmer from Sardinia,* Segni has given away 250 acres of his own rich olive groves to landless peasants; in 1950, as Agriculture Minister, he sponsored a far-reaching system of national land reform. Politically, Segni is a moderate conservative who is not likely to stand in the way of reforms planned under Fanfani's opening to the left...