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...Mekong Delta, where 80% of South Viet Nam's rice is grown, seven out of ten families were tenants, paying 30% or more of their income to the landlords for their land, seed and the use of a buffalo. Typical of the tenants was Tran Van Cau, 42, a farmer in the Delta village of Tan Loc. For ten years, Cau had tilled a small 4½-acre tract; he paid rent first to a local landlord, then for six years to the Viet Cong, then to the original landlord, who moved back after government troops "pacified" the village...
More subtly, there are doubts about what will follow the old landlord system. For all their faults, Vietnamese landlords were traditionally a buffer between their tenants and the whims and avarice of Vietnamese officialdom. In some areas, officials seeking kickbacks have forced poor tenants off lands near roads and villages in order to make room for wealthier farmers better able to offer bribes for the choice titles...
...registrant should have proof of six months of residency in Cambridge. The League of Women Voters suggests that the registrant should bring with him utility bills, a rent receipt, or a notarized statement from his landlord. Although six months of attendance at Harvard has not always been accepted as proof of Cambridge residency, it now will be, a spokeswoman for the League said...
Just as some ease is beginning to be established, there is this shattering spectacle. Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon at the ballet. Sitting cozily between them is Madame Mao, the fire-breathing dragon lady of the Cultural Revolution. They are observing the drama of a wicked landlord and how he beats the peasants who turn on him and join the Communists. They go off into the red sunset shooting, bombing and hacking their way to liberation and the new age. My God, this same Nixon is advocating cutting landlords' taxes back home and suggesting a generation of peace without...
...journals are not devoted exclusively to politics. Some have delved into the intricacies of Jewish religious law, Halakhah, as they apply to contemporary problems, genesis 2 printed an angry sermon on a Boston slumlord, urging that the Jewish community not ignore Halakhic prescriptions about a landlord's obligations to tenants. Response published a provocative piece by Rabbi Everett Gendler, suggesting that groups of believing families could find an alternative to the traditional synagogue by sharing their homes for services and celebrations...