Word: prosterman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 1981, Roy Prosterman an export who helped the El Salvation government design its land reform system, cancelled a debate scheduled at the Kennedy School one day after part of an 1800 member match against U.S. involvement in El Salvador interrupted a K-School speech he was delivering...
...program fear that D'Aubuisson will quietly try to sabotage it. Leaders of two large campesino organizations charge that since the election, thousands of peasants have been illegally evicted from their plots by landowners who are frequently backed by paramilitary forces and local police. Says Roy Prosterman, a U.S. law professor who was a consultant on El Salvador's agrarian reforms: "There is currently a popular expression in the assembly, 'Land reform is fine, but it has to be perfected.' Many of us fear that that is a code word for 'destroyed...
...Prosterman, the veteran of the Vietnamese "land reforms" who masterminded the El Salvadoran program (and whose visit sparked the Harvard protest last spring) contributes one of the tracts, arguing that his land reform is likely to be the only land reform for a very long time. "Those who really care about El Salvador's peasants will, I think, join me in urging that economic aid to the land reform be continued," Prosterman contends, basing his argument on the announced goals of the three-phase land reform program...
...Prosterman, saying that "it is not helpful to discuss facts in a crowd situation," slipped out a back door as the protestors staged an impromptu--and more emotional--continuation of the rally...
Committee members had invited Prosterman to a group-sponsored debate last night on U.S. aid to El Salvador, but Prosterman said yesterday that the K-School rally had warned him of "the three ring circus" this event would become. He with-drew his acceptance yesterday afternoon...