Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banners of Reform. In four years, the U.S. has handed out $4.2 billion in grants, loans, goods and technical assistance−of which $3.9 billion went to the OAS nations, and the rest to British Guiana, Jamaica and other smaller countries and colonies. In turn, Latin American nations have invested from $22 billion to $24 billion in development projects, and more than $1 billion more has come from foreign lenders and international agencies. "Twenty-five million people−13 million of them little children are now receiving food from the Alliance program,"Johnson reported. "More than 1.5 million people have...
...fought with the Viet Cong, and Castroite Lawyer Luis de la Puente, 36, wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. The terrorists preach the usual Communist line about capitalist exploitation and free land for all, attempt to counter the government's own considerable efforts at aid and social reform among the Indians by warning that free flour is distributed merely to fatten the Indians, the better to make soap of them later...
While still in his early teens, Claude Brown was the coolest of Harlem cats: smoker of pot, snuffer of cocaine, graduate of two reform schools, expert in the arts of bebopping (gang warfare), Murphying (a form of pimping), jugging (fornication) and stinging (armed robbery). Then Brown moved downtown, found a square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust...
...fight against the stranglers of the republic." To defend himself against leftist attacks, Boumedienne has gone out of his way to proclaim that Algeria is still "socialist" and "revolutionary." But with his nation all but bankrupted by Ben Bella's ambitious plots, he is vitally concerned with reform at home. Ignoring the howls of extremists, he has already pushed through a lucrative Sahara oil agreement with the French and granted oil exploration concessions to three U.S. companies. Even worse, he has opened a campaign to woo private foreign investors back to Algeria by guaranteeing their money against nationalization...
...practically zero for many leading companies. Then came a sudden and dramatic change. Last week, having broken all records in July, daily trading volume advanced to 1,626,447 shares, and daily sales topped $1,000,000 for the first time in history. Main reason: a new capital-market reform bill that Brazilian President Humberto Castello Branco signed into law last month. The law sets up an equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission by empowering the central bank to discipline the market, allows new brokers to enter the previously closed exchange, requires firms trading on the market to publish...