Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic reform. We faced difficulties created by the ravages of 40 years of war. Afterward, we made costly mistakes in our effort to rebuild the country. Now we know the mistakes and their price. We were too hasty, too simplistic, too subjective. We tried to build socialism without going through the necessary period of capitalist development. Today we are correcting those mistakes with a profound and thorough renovation. A policy has already begun that wipes out a centralized bureaucracy based on state subsidies that caused our people suffering...
...prompt changes in the system. Samples: Senator Joseph Biden would lengthen the academic year by 30 days; Congressman Richard Gephardt would reward school districts that show the most improvement; Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis would intensify federal efforts to help recruit and train teachers. When Gephardt asserted that educational reform "is going to take money -- I think all of us would agree," no Democrat dissented...
...ticket out. A government worker takes him aside and asks, with great diffidence, if he would mind very much having his passport stolen. "Nobody is happy, but everyone is afraid to speak out," observes a habanero. "Nobody trusts anybody else. A few years ago, a generation arose that wanted reform. ( Now the main preoccupation is keeping quiet. People are waiting to see what will happen when Fidel goes...
...rebels' charge of ineptitude also cuts deeply. In the past few months, Aquino's supporters have tried to rouse the President into taking firm action on a wide range of issues, including land reform, the Communist insurgency and the regulation of foreign investment. In almost all cases, Aquino has chosen to delay decisions, pass on responsibility to Congress or simply ignore the problems. The President has been faulted even by friends for reacting to crises by "praying and delaying." Of her survival, she said last week rather fatalistically, "If the country needs me, God will spare...
...sympathy with Honasan. The N.P.A., declaring its intention to take advantage of the confusion caused by Honasan's revolt, killed 27 police and soldiers in an ambush in two provinces. Though Aquino has called Honasan a coward for abandoning hundreds of his men, his image as a dashing, reform-minded renegade could establish him as a folk hero to rival the President. "That young man should be shot," says David Steinberg, a leading U.S. authority on the Philippines. "Cory can't leave that decision to the Almighty." Some of her fellow citizens were wishing she would adopt a less otherworldly...