Word: reform
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Nixon virtually ignored his Cabinet. Ford promises to restore its power and influence. Most important, the Administration should be able to develop once again a coherent legislative policy. The leftover Nixon legislative program is a shambles. There is no energy policy. Attempts at a foreign trade bill, welfare reform and land-use legislation have bogged down. In what promises to be a protracted honeymoon period, and the President undistracted by scandal, such programs can presumably be pushed forward again...
Ford's record on civil rights legislation is mixed; he has supported most major reform bills on the floor but only after first voting to emasculate them. He has long opposed the busing of schoolchildren to attain racial balance, a move that sits well with his Grand Rapids constituents but has earned him the hostility of most major civil rights leaders...
Before the recent Cyprus crisis, he had spent most of his political career on domestic affairs, crusading for liberal causes. As Minister of Labor in 1961, he sponsored Turkey's first right-to-strike legislation. He is an advocate of land reform, the improvement of health care and social services in rural areas and increased state participation in basic industries. Two years ago, he successfully challenged Turkey's venerable political leader Ismet Inonii (who served as President or Premier throughout most of a quarter-century) for the chairmanship of the mildly leftist Republican People's Party...
...land-reform program, which has redistributed 14 million acres of Peru's farm land might well become something of a model for other South American countries. More than 1 million of the country's 15 million people received their own plots of land or have become members of land-owning cooperatives under the plan. Unlike Salvador Allende Gossens' ill-fated government in Chile, Peru managed to nationalize U.S. petroleum and copper companies without incurring American sanctions. The country, moreover, has enjoyed economic progress under military rule, with an annual growth rate of 5%, although countless Peruvian poor...
...cursory glance reveals at least 69 lawyers on TIME'S list of "200 Faces for the Future." Let's hope that these up-and-coming lawyers will be working for reform instead of defending one another in future Watergates...