Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Estenssoro two years ago, was inaugurated as Bolivia's 47th President. With massive support from the country's long-neglected campesinos, Barrientos' motley coalition party of leftists and rightists swept into power with 100 of Congress' 129 seats, promising more of the same firm, reform-minded government that began with Barrientos' military junta. In his inaugural speech, Barrientos assigned top priority to creating 10,000 new jobs in private fields; building scores of new schools and hospitals and at least 15,000 new homes a year; and stepping up agricultural production...
...faltering National Front coalition of liberals and conservatives, took office with one big strike against him. In the March elections, the Front won only 162 of Congress' 306 seats, far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and Lleras Restrepo's program of welfare and land reform will face an ob streperous opposition led by ex-Dictator (1953-57) Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. But Lleras Restrepo can always fall back on the 15-month-old state of siege declared by former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, empowering the President to legislate by decree...
A.B.A. committees will labor for months ahead on a variety of legal and national problems. Studies in the works include the 25th Amendment on presidential disability; Electoral College reform; modernization of the A.B.A.'s 60-year-old canons of ethics; and expanded legal services for all citizens in all walks of life. The A.B.A. also voted to admit law students to associate membership beginning with their freshman year...
...July issue of Foreign Affairs, James Reston outlines imaginative suggestions for a reform of the role of the American press. The newspapers' major weakness, the New York Times' associate editor writes in "The Press, The President, and Foreign Policy," is their neglect of the educator's role for the sake of the role of reporter. Too much emphasis is being put on reporting events while too little is being dedicated to the analysis of foreign policy...
...steel industry faces nationalization for the second time. The bill now in Parliament, which would buy out the 14 major private steel firms for $1.358 billion, is designed as much to demonstrate that the Labor Party still has some socialist beliefs as to modernize the industry. That nationalization will reform British steel is doubtful, but private industry has done little in the 13 years since steel was denationalized, and few would disagree with the Observer that "British steel is a mess." Now, even in the British domestic market, imported pig iron, at $53.20 a ton, undersells the local stuff...