Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With vigor and imagination, Marcos has set out to eliminate smuggling, which bleeds the treasury of $100 million in taxes a year; streamline swollen bureaucracies where graft has long been a way of life; and, especially, reform an anachronistic agricultural economy that has as much acreage under cultivation as Japan but turns out only 25% as much rice. Impressed by such beginnings, Lyndon Johnson last week promised his guest everything he came to Washington to get. The U.S. agreed to: - Provide an added $21 million (to the current $24 million) for such agricultural programs as irrigation, rice growing and rural...
...Revolutionary Development" program for the countryside. With two-thirds of the year gone, Viet Nam's four regions have committed less than half of their 1966 development budgets; in northern provinces, racked by anti-government ferment last summer, as little as 13% of these projects has been completed. Reform of Viet Nam's archaic land tenure, the key to a land-hungry peasant's loyalty, is also dragging. Though Komer claims that the Ky regime "is proceeding with distribution of 1,200,000 acres of expropriated and government-owned land," in fact it has only managed...
...Phan Quang Dan, 48, another physician (he runs a clinic in Gia Dinh) and a favorite of Americans. Dan cam paigned for free trade unionism, free enterprise and a guaranteed minimum wage, urged meaningful land reform and an unrestrained legal opposition to any civilian government...
...also at obliterating China's own preCommunist past. Nor was that all. "We are not only stirring up a revolutionary storm in China," they cried, "we shall spread it over the whole world." As for anyone who dared to oppose the new trend, the Guards pledged to "reform him, impose dictatorship on him, and fight him until our bayonets are stained with blood...
...undergoing the kind of transformation that Judaism suffered through in the 19th century. As dogmatic and cohesive a community then as Catholicism was before the council, Judaism offered its adherents a choice between Orthodoxy or apostasy. Now the Jew has a range of choice from secular indifference to Reform permissiveness to the strict Halakic observance of the Hasidim. Jews-and Protestants too-are aware that pluralism offers risks as well as rewards: indifferentism, sectarian quarrels, doctrinal anarchy. Yet just as Catholicism accepted the precedent of other faiths in adopting a vernacular liturgy and a belief in the primacy of conscience...