Word: landless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the beginning of the war in Viet Nam, nothing has proved more difficult to capture than the allegiance of the peasantry, particularly the landless tenant farmers. Well aware of the issue's importance, the Viet Cong have long made a point of redistributing land under their control. A succession of Saigon governments paid due obeisance to the ideal of land reform, but did nothing. Last week, in the Mekong Delta center of Can Tho, President Nguyen Van Thieu signed into law a land-reform bill that, he said, would help "each tenant to become a landowner enjoying...
Blood All Over. In the countryside, Marxist agitators stirred discontent among landless peasants. In Calcutta, they won big pay increases for 1,000,000 tea, jute, textile and engineering workers. To make sure that no one interfered with the Marxists' tough tactics, Party Boss Jyoti Basu saw to it that Bengali police were deeply infiltrated by the party faithful. The political shenanigans soon led to a breakdown of law and order throughout the state...
...that time, when the co-op was just getting started, Mrs. Hamer said that its goal was not only to provide a farm income for landless families, but also to serve as a social and political organizing center for the blacks of the Mississippi Delta...
Today the Untouchables remain the most backward group in a still backward land. India's literacy rate of 25% is shocking enough, but it drops to 10% among the Untouchables. More than one-third of the Untouchables are landless farm laborers toiling for 260 a day. Those who have fled to the cities, where they can enjoy urban anonymity, find caste still much in evidence. Though the government is supposed to reserve 12.5% of all its job openings for them, only 2% of New Delhi's top-echelon officials and 3% of its legions of clerks are harijans...