Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Persons convicted of "crimes of rebellion or sedition" under Spain's rigid military code. This clause will free, among others, nine officers convicted in March of membership in the illegal Military Democratic Union, a moderate group dedicated to democracy and the reform of the military establishment...
Communist countries like China, North Korea, Cuba and others nevertheless have their networks of "labor reform" camps for "re-educating" dissidents. The harsh life of these camps, with their meager diets, minimum time for sleep and long hours of labor, can produce agony bordering on torture...
...calorie diets and drug treatments produce pain and suffering as acute as more physical methods of repression. One dissenter, Cybernetics Specialist Leonid Plyushch, now living in Paris, testified that he was kept in the Dnepropetrovsk Special Hospital for 30 months after getting a spurious diagnosis of "torpid schizophrenia" with "reform-making illusions." Plyushch saw beatings applied to other patients. He himself received insulin and heavy doses of sulfur which caused "discomfort so intense that all you could do was endlessly search for a new position...
Motivated by their usual good intentions, tax reformers in Congress began moving about two years ago to clear the jungle known as U.S. tax law. Their goal: to eliminate the inequities that favor certain taxpayers-most often powerful corporations and wealthy individuals. Late last year, the House passed a mild 674-page reform bill. Last week, by a vote of 49 to 22, the Senate approved a loophole-riddled bill that is more than twice as long (1,500 pages) and, arguably, half as effective...
...sure, the Senate version of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 would do several things for the average taxpayer. It would extend through next year the 1975 tax cut that slightly reduced withholding rates. It would allow each taxpayer and dependent a $35 credit (up from the present $30) to be subtracted directly from taxes owed through 1977. It would give some relief to many retired people by a simplified tax credit system. It would increase the standard income tax deduction this year to as much as $2,400 for single persons and $2,800 for couples...