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...Prime Minister seemed to have little effect on the Communists' public support. Local Congress Party officials were widely regarded as political hacks, while the Marxist candidates could point to ten years of relatively good government under their rule. The Communists have distributed tracts of farmland to landless peasants and kept government corruption in check. The party, which broke with Moscow in 1964, is hardly doctrinaire. Chief Minister Basu, for example, is coaxing multinational companies to invest in West Bengal...
With partition and independence in 1947, India went to the Hindus and Pakistan to the Muslims; the Sikhs were left in the middle. The Sikhs' home state of Punjab was cut to a third of its former size, and many Sikhs, finding themselves landless, became urban teachers, doctors and engineers. By now the vast majority of Sikhs are the very picture of middle-class respectability. Yet a small band of extremists has continued agitating, with ever more fervor, for a separate Sikh state that would be called Khalistan...
...compromise adopted last December, Phase 2 now applies only to farms larger than 605 acres, but so far, none of the land in question has been redistributed. Phase 3, known as the land-to-the-tiller program, also went ahead in 1980. It allowed an estimated 117,000 landless farmers and their families to purchase the small (up to 17 acres) plots that they had previously worked as tenants or sharecroppers. In all, some 228,230 acres of land, or 6% of El Salvador's cultivated area, was subject to change of ownership under Phase...
Drawing sustained applause from the audience, Fiallos said the Sandinist Government had made significant progress since coming to power in 1979. He noted that literacy has increased from 50 percent to 87 percent, and that the land holdings of the former ruling Government have been parceled out to previously landless peasants...
...frontier east of the Mississippi. The Emperor Napoleon had been tempted to sell all of France's New World holdings-for as little as ? 3 million-but Jefferson, that consummate troublemaker, convinced him not only to keep his 828,000 square miles but to populate them with the landless peasants of France and Southern Europe. If it had not been for Jefferson-non piangere per me, indeed!-America, our British America, might now extend from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains. It would then be nearly as large as Mexico, which inherited from Spain not only the southwest...