Word: landlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus, the movements persist. In Chile, the M.I.R. (Movement of the Revolutionary Left), which is militant but has seldom employed murderous tactics, has made a strong appeal to landless peasants in the southern part of the country. With only token resistance from the police, they have seized more than 150 farms and illegally occupied 2,000 or so apartments in government housing projects this year. Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, has been reluctant to move decisively against the squatters for fear of further weakening his already shaky left-wing coalition of support. Last week, a massive protest parade in Santiago...
...small way, the fate of South Viet Nam has long hinged on the fortunes of the restless, landless peasants whose rebellion against an intolerable feudal way of life was one of the original causes of the war. In the 1950s, the Viet Cong cut a wide swath through the Vietnamese countryside by importing Ho Chi Minh's formula of routing the landlords and distributing "land to the tiller." Today, the leading advocate of Ho's thesis is none other than President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...widely praised land-reform program is well under way. More than 470,000 of 800,000 farming families have been awarded titles to 1,560,000 acres of land, mostly private tracts that they had previously tilled as tenant farmers. At year's end, farming by landless tenant families will have virtually ceased in South Viet Nam. That means, as Thieu said last week at a Farmer's Day celebration at Bien Hoa, "a new way of life, a prosperous and dignified life...
...Allende's relations with the U.S., since three U.S. companies (Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro Corp.) own the bulk of the remaining foreign interest in Chile's copper mines. Allende has also expropriated 350 latifundios (large estates), with a total of 2,593,000 acres. Although very few landless families have been relocated thus far, he likes to boast that "in five months we have done one-third of what the previous government did in six years...
...forming the Goverment's economic policies (groups of senior military officers are also influential) had asked the DAS for a small (4-5 economists) advisory group. Since the economists, unlike the Soekarno regime, were fully committed to economic development and a fight against inflation which had particularly affected landless laborers and the urban poor, the DAS agreed to provide such a team. (Soekarno had many times expressed his contempt for the significance of economic problems...