Word: landlessness
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From Right & Left. Frei proposes a state bank to force down the high interest rates charged by Chile's private banks and thus help rein in inflation (up 38% in 1964), land reform to distribute unused or badly administered estates to 100,000 landless peasants, tax reform to raise rates on middle and high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country...
...prospect was hardly encouraging 18 months ago when Belaúnde took over after a bitterly fought election. With Peru's economy just starting to gather momentum, agitators within the unions were threatening crippling strikes, landless highland Indians were waging angry battles against their landowners, and businessmen were sending their money abroad for safekeeping...
...Without Bloodshed." A handsome architect turned politician, Belaúnde seems to have had the right blueprint. He sent troops into the highlands to restore law and order, then enacted a sensible land-reform bill that will provide land for the landless without destroying the big, productive estates on which the country's agriculture depends (TIME, July 3). Throughout Peru, police rounded up extremist troublemakers to make it plain that despite some Communist support in the elections, Belaúnde would tolerate no Red-made unrest. Though his Action Popular party and its political allies held only a minority...
...Steel Chairman Roger Blough, 60, given the New York City U.S.O.'s gold medal "as one who symbolizes the support of U.S.O. by major industries of America"; Vinoba Bhave, 69, Gandhian holy man whose pilgrimages across India have netted 5,000,000 acres of "land for the landless," given a medal by President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan from Pope Paul VI; Sculptor Alexander Colder, 66, Critic Malcolm Cowley, 66, and Poet Allen Tote, 65, named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; John N. Heiskell, 92, publisher of the Arkansas Gazette, winner of Arizona University's John Peter Zenger...
...utilizing state-owned land along with the expropriated acres, President Belaunde hopes to eventually settle 1,000,000 landless peasants on their own farms, giving up to 32 acres to a family in rich coastal areas, up to 75 acres in the highlands. If the program is carried out successfully, the change will be dramatic. Most of the country's arable land has been concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy hacienda owners ever since colonial days; the peasants either worked as sharecroppers or scratched a bare living out of their own tiny plots, often no larger than...