Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Archaeologist Posun Yun, 69. Last week, Park showed just how far he and his country have come in those four years. In South Korea's most peaceful election in postwar years, more than 11 million out of 14 million eligible voters turned out to give Park and his reform-minded Democratic Republican Party a margin of more than 1,000,000 votes over...
...achieved economic stability first by reforming the agricultural base, which more often than not is a millstone around the neck of a developing nation. Because of the spine-like ridge of mountains that runs up the middle of Taiwan, only 3,000 of the island's 13,800 square miles are arable; for centuries, that land was held by landlords and worked by tenant farmers. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek, under a land-reform program, distributed small plots to the tenants-and encouraged landlords to invest their settlement money in industry. Now, with farmers keeping 80% of their...
Beneath the almost laughable fuss surrounding the House Armed Services Committee hearings on the draft is a sobering fact: by the time Congress is ready to present the President with a new Selective Service Act, there will be little left resembling the Marshall Commission's laudable recommendations for draft reform. All of the committee members' raging against Stokely Carmichael and all of their prattle about the First Amendment should not obscure the slow erosion of what once seemed a genuine attempt to improve the draft...
...which the Commission would have virtually eliminated, Congress may be tempted to create a host of loopholes for fields "in the national interest." The essential inequity of deferments-turned-exemptions could remain unsolved. Part of the problem is that Rivers and other conservatives are exploiting the issue of draft reform for their own purposes. To them, draft reform means jailing dissenters rather than ending the injustices that provoked the dissent. Men who should be involved in refining and writing draft legislation will find themselves defending the right of free speech against what amounts to a diversionary attack...
...Draft reform is in trouble; whether the new system that will eventually emerge from a Senate-House conference committee will be any better than the old is anyone's guess. Some of the Marshall Commission's ideas are certainly dead; no one, for example, either in the White House or in the Congress, is going to fight for the abolition of 2-S deferments. If the lottery and the elimination of graduate deferments suffer the same fate, then the new Selective Service Act will differ only in detail from its unwieldy and unfair predecessor...