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...order to gain this support, the regime has had to shake hands with the devil, reality, and make some concessions to the army to keep military support. Yet an amazing start has been made. All large (over 1250 acres) farms have been made into cooperatives. The landless sharecroppers have been given freehold title to the soil they work. In fact, the far right tried to slow down the program by killing the American land reform experts sent by U.S. labor unions who were running the show. Moreover, the far right dislikes the presence of American military advisors who inhibit...
...some Biharis say they do comprehend. With a population of 70 million, many of them landless and impoverished, in a region roughly the size of New England, Bihar is one of India's most volatile states. It is an area bedeviled by crime, caste and religious clashes, where bandits subject people to daily terror. Many believe that some kind of firm measures by the police are necessary...
...Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although in his case that is like reversing an oak into a nutshell): John Jasper, choirmaster, lusts after Rosa Bud, betrothed to his nephew Edwin Drood. When Drood disappears, a young rival for Rosa Bud, Neville Landless, is accused of murder. Because no body is found, Landless is released. Enter the ostentatiously mysterious Datchery, an old man with juvenile energy. Is he disguised? Is he a detective? Is he a woman? Is he Drood himself? Through the drama swirl the premonitory themes of drug addiction and Eastern religion...
...media said little about the 80 percent of peasant families remaining landless, about the growing shanty towns holding the displaced peasants, the misery and alienation of these people ripped from their traditional way of life and subject to new economic and cultural pressures...
...glaring than in Mexico's long heralded land redistribution program. Since the 1910 revolution, about 38 million acres have been expropriated from huge haciendas and given to 25,000 communal ejidos (peasant associations) composed of families who have occupied the land for centuries. Nevertheless, there are still 4.5 million landless campesinos. The gap is partly attributable to the fact that the rural poor are among the fastest-growing segments of Mexico's population. But the plight of the campesinos has been made worse by government support of agribusiness. Only about 15% of Mexico's land is suitable for cultivation. Most...