Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading member of the Uniao Demoratica National Party, now banned by the military government in Brazil, Lacerda was elected governor of the State of Guanabara from 1960 to 1965. During his term as a "reform" Governor he built over 200 schools to assure a primary education to every child in the state, and launched three massive urban renewal projects to clear Rio deJaneiro's well known "favella" shanty towns...
...helping tutor children in depressed areas. A more immediately fruitful area for social involvement is the campus itself-a malleable microcosm of an existing and perfectible world. Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence College, observed recently: "The student has become the most powerful invisible force in the reform of education-and, indirectly, in the reform of American society...
...have held a series of dialogues with Orthodox prelates on the question of possible reunion. The more promising young priests are now being sent to Germany and Greece for graduate study-and already the church is being plagued by a few fiery clerics, who, Luther-like, are demanding radical reform. Nonetheless, educated Ethiopians expect that real progress will be slow in coming. Despite its shortcomings, the church remains serene in its conviction that it possesses the true apostolic faith...
...this might seem to be a radical departure for a man of pronounced pro-West sympathies. But in fact Demirel was simply making gestures that would muffle the critics in Turkey who feel he is too friendly to the West. An ambitious politician with big plans for development and reform, Demirel took office with one stiff strike against him: he was the political heir of ex-Strongman Adnan Menderes, whom the army overthrew in 1960 and executed. As a result, the army was at first suspicious of him, and the left-of-center opposition...
During his year in office, President Ferdinand Marcos has leveled a two-pronged attack on the troublesome pockets of Huk rebellion that still persist in parts of central Luzon more than a decade after the collapse of the main Communist insurgency. One weapon is a social-reform program that aims to undercut the Huks by building schools and hospitals, repairing wells and roads, and providing land-improvement loans to farmers. The other is the cold steel and hot bullets of a 3,800-man military force under Colonel Rafael Ileto, 46, who was named last winter to hunt down...