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...nation that has historically concerned itself with enlarging the electorate, the U.S. has always treated one large group of citizens with curious neglect. Over the years, five major groups have been added to the voting ranks: the landless (under the Constitution), Negroes (1870), women (1920), Washingtonians (1961) and refugees from the poll tax (1964). Yet America, a nation obsessed with youth, with nearly half its population under 25, does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given...
Nearly all the peasants in Thailand's Northeast own land, while 80% of the South Vietnamese are landless. Thailand did not have to fight a long, bitter war against a colonial power, as Viet Nam did against the French. Thailand has an efficient civil service, police force and school system that penetrate even to the most remote Northeastern hamlet. And, far from least, King Bhumibol Adulyadej can trace his Chakri dynasty in an unbroken line back to 1782. The King's picture hangs in practically every house and humble hut in Thailand, where he is not only liked...
...dame of letters and critic of Communist censorship, who last year joined 33 prominent intellectuals in a forlorn bid for greater freedom, and persisted after others gave up, best known for her sensitive four-volume saga (Nights and Days, 1934) of the rural gentry, and later studies of the landless peasantry; of heart and kidney ailments; near Warsaw, Poland...
...moves brought joy to landless peasants and urban workers but were resented by great landowners, who fear the loss of their power. Similarly, the conservative Moslem mullahs dislike the freedom of women and the decree that shrine lands are to be shared among the peasants. It is probably significant that the soldier who tried to kill the Shah last week came from southern Iran near the nation's religious capital of Qum, a hotbed of anti-Shah feeling...
Member in Good Standing. Donny Reid has also faced up to the economic problems. The Trujillos left the treasury badly depleted and the sugar-cane-based agriculture in chaos. Reid is carrying out an agrarian reform that, among other things, gives former Trujillo acreage to landless peasants, and is pushing a program to teach modern farming methods. He cut military spending, started a forest-conservation program, tax reform and a plan to build more schools, hospitals, low-cost houses and roads. Most important, he launched an austerity program to bring the nation's foreign spending into line with...