Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to "forge a social revolution, even as the conflict continues." They include wider use of South Vietnamese troops in "clear-and-hold" actions designed not only to rid villages of guerrillas but also to help them build a more productive society afterward, a top-priority program of land reform and agricultural modernization, and scrupulous observance of the Geneva conventions on war prisoners. In the political field, the document commits Saigon to bend every effort to complete its constitution by March, the holding of nationwide elections by October and of village and hamlet elections all through...
...first government party since 1851 to win a majority in the House of Deputies, and the party went on to triple its membership in the Senate. But a mandate is one thing, politics another. Last week-after two years of long, hard talking-Frei's two key reform bills were finally approaching reality...
...second bill, covering land reform, has just about cleared Congress, and needs only one last Senate vote, which is expected in the next few weeks. Once enacted, the program will provide land for 100,000 peasants by imposing new acreage limits on large estates and permitting the government to pay off the owners of the expropriated land in 30 years instead of the present 15. While awaiting his new program, Frei has already expropriated or reached agreement with owners of 240 large estates, 85 of which are now in government hands for redistribution...
...blessings, Adlai launched his political career in 1964. He was first in the state-wide election for the Illinois House of Representatives (the runner-up was ironically Earl Eisenhower). In the House he was part of a small clique of liberal Democrats that sponsored a package of sorely needed reform legislation. The Republican-dominated Senate, however, voted down anything that smelled faintly of reform...
...most striking suggestion is that the state seriously consider a unicameral legislature if in fact the structure of the General Court itself is in need of reform. As McCormack notes, such a change would completely change the informal power patterns through which the members of the Court operate as well as speeding up the conduct of the legislature. Gov. Volpe, however, has proposed only that the House of Representatives be reduced from 240 to 160 members. Volpe himself has yet to explain just what the benefit of such a reduction would be. It would not change the power structure...