Word: landlessness
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...inequities. Much of the land was owned communally, by the village; the proceeds from it were used to help the poorer peasants pay their taxes, to finance schools and pay teachers, to provide for widows and orphans. There were as yet no classes of wealthy landlords and of landless rural poor. Except during infrequent periods of natural disaster, on one went hungry in rural Vietnam...
...French land policy transformed the character of life in the countryside, creating a tiny elite of largely absentee owners--who controlled wide tracts of land--and a huge class of landless tenants. An 1839 Nguyen decree had limited the size of an individual's landholdings; under the French some landlords owned up to 150 times this limit. Every peasant in traditional Vietnam had been guaranteed his share of land; under French rule over half the peasants became landless and many of the rest owned plots so small that they had to rent more from the landlord...
Popular Unity traveled smoothly at first. Although the opposition vetoed all important legislation except for the nationalization, Allende found enough loopholes and unenforced old laws to make great advances in all areas. Workers' councils were set up in factories, landless peasants met to divide up expropriated estates, poor children drank milk for the first time and their older brothers and sisters began to attend universities...
...like Laos should have the easiest path to peace. Unlike Viet Nam, the country is not riven by irreconcilable rivalry between northerners and southerners, between Catholics, Buddhists and Communists or even-in a country with the acreage of Britain and the population of Brooklyn-between the landed and the landless. "If we could speak as one Laotian to another," Interior Minister Pheng Phongsavan told TIME's Peter Simms in Vientiane last week, "we could solve our problems without any great difficulty." That has not been possible, Phongsavan complains, because "the Pathet Lao are always looking over their shoulders...
...Parliament and in all but four of the 21 state houses, her programs are expected to have smoother sailing. Her next five-year plan, just announced, will address itself to rural development, including specific programs to create employment, improve education and public health, and build new homes for landless rural laborers...