Word: landlessness
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...Guatemala's backlands, torn by bitter years of a Communist-written land reform that set peasant against landholder, last week came a quietly revolutionary reform of the reform. Going well beyond the vague notion that landless Indians "ought" to have some of the big estates held by a few families, President Carlos Castillo Armas' decree aimed at raising the agricultural health of all Guatemala...
...land redistribution. Thereupon, Bhave set out with a few of his own disciples to persuade India's landowners to give away portions of their land (TIME, May 11, 1953). Bhave's target was 50 million acres (one-sixth of India's cultivated land) for 50 million landless laborers, and his appeal was spiritual; he asked landlords to treat him as their "fifth son." Last week, having walked more than 10,000 miles, prayed and pleaded his cause in seven Indian states, Holy Man Bhave strode back to Pothampalli in a saddened mood...
...missilemen: It is 1962, and the U.S. is lagging in its development of war's newest weapon, the long-range guided missile. From Moscow to the apprehensive free world comes a terse radio announcement: for the next ten days, a 200-mile-square area in the landless South Pacific is a danger area; shipmasters and airplane pilots traverse it at their peril. The U.S. Navy and Air Force take tip surveillance of the area; radar tracking crews from Alaska to New Guinea stand by their gear. On one of these days, a small, swift object rises steeply from...
...investment in the region. It has built 18,000 new farm houses, 1,800 miles of road, and increased electrical consumption by 43% It has created new employment equivalent to about 200,000 full-time jobs, added 2% to Italy's national income and given land to the landless. As of last October, the Cassa had redistributed 1,168,782 acres of land, making proud landholders (of 10-to 15-acre farms) out of 90,000 peasants. Already detailed projects still to come: safe drinking water for 1,200 towns, construction of 1,300 miles of new roads...
...rest of India. They already had 46 seats, only seven fewer than the Congress Party, in the state assembly. Andhra is their kind of breeding ground: a place of extreme and uncaring wealth, and of miserable poverty. In Andhra, four in every ten people are tenant farmers and landless agricultural laborers, susceptible to Communist promises...