Word: landless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India-trained B. P. Koirala, who advocated the same vaguely socialistic ideas that animate India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Late in 1960, when Koirala pushed through legislation subjecting landlords to a property tax and expropriating large estates for the benefit of Nepal's millions of landless peasants, King Mahendra abruptly dissolved Parliament, jailed Koirala and as many of his Cabinet ministers as the inept Nepali police could lay hands on. After suppressing the nation's 15 political parties, the King has ruled through an appointed six-man Cabinet headed by brash young Foreign and Home Minister...
...best in its superb relief maps. In addition, each large area of the planet is shown, by means of color photos of a specially built globe, as it would look from a point several hundred miles out in space. The technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating the formation of a barrier beach. For Maine, the diagram...
Diem's first 15 months were his finest. He survived against all odds. He split up large landholdings and sold them off to landless farmers; he expanded rice production and encouraged light industry...
...officials were fired, and 370 others were pried away from their bureaucratic desks and ordered out into the provinces to teach people how to read. In the Ministry of Agriculture, new Minister Hassan Arsanjani ordered a fresh topographic survey of government-owned lands, preparatory to parceling them out to landless peasants. As for Iran's big landowners, Premier Amini personally warned: "I do not expect slow action from you either." A long-ignored law restricting individual family holdings to 1,000 acres of irrigated, and 2,000 acres of nonirrigated land was dusted off and declared operative. Cried Arsanjani...
...wishes to cross Sumapaz must get Varela's safe-conduct pass. Varela calls himself agrarian reformer and has even got himself elected to Colombia's Congress on the votes of poverty-ridden peasants (3,741 Colombians died of starvation and malnutrition in 1958; 1,300,000 are landless today). But Varela's real job is keeping Communism's flag flying, no matter the cost. Last September a gang massacred four of Varela's brothers, all antiCommunists. Witnesses say the men who did the job looked very much like Varela's militiamen...