Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, Lyndon Johnson remained in insulated silence at the L.B.J. Ranch. Suspense and hopeful anticipation built up. Then, in a spectacular series of midweek revelations, the shroud of mystery lifted. In a characteristic stroke of showmanship, the President had dispatched a flying squad of U.S. officials all over the world to discuss the prospects for peace talks on Viet...
After Lyndon Johnson had had a while to think it over, he issued from his ranch a statement charging that there was "no justification for the action" and asking that Bethlehem representatives meet immediately with the council members. Added the President...
...little, too slow. Half a dozen times in the past six months, Peruvian army troops have been sent to turn back large groups of impatient peasants invading haciendas in the Andean highlands. Early this month soldiers were forced to fire on 300 Indians who descended on a ranch north of Lima, killing three squatters and wounding two. So strong is the pressure that the government is sidestepping its careful, step-by-step program and plunging ahead...
...weeks ago a highland district reform commissioner suddenly declared afectada (destined for expropriation) one of the most efficient ranch operations in the country: 440,000 acres owned by Cerro de Pasco Co., Peru's copper giant. Cerro officials reacted first with disbelief, then outrage when government officials refused to reconsider. In bypassing scores of marginally operated highland estates, said Cerro, the government had violated the spirit, if not the precise letter, of its own law. The company pointed out that its sheep produce three times as much meat as the neighboring Indian herds; furthermore, it ran the ranch...
...wholesale land giveaways. Mexico and Bolivia both experienced sharp drops in agricultural production when they went in for helter-skelter land reform; the Cuban economy is still reeling from Fidel Castro's mismanagement of the sugar lands. In Peru's own case, an efficient, 511,500-acre ranch near the Cerro lands was purchased two years ago by government officials, who parceled out most of it among 14 land-hungry Indian communities. Since then, 100,000 of the ranch's original 160,000 head of sheep and cattle have been eaten, given away, stolen or destroyed...