Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Right & Left. Frei proposes a state bank to force down the high interest rates charged by Chile's private banks and thus help rein in inflation (up 38% in 1964), land reform to distribute unused or badly administered estates to 100,000 landless peasants, tax reform to raise rates on middle and high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country...
Talk of new peace-keeping machinery led several participants - including Secretary-General U Thant - to propose a thorough reform...
...clearly getting the worst of it. Between May and December last year, Castro sacked four Cabinet ministers who were aligned with the Soviet-oriented wing of the party. Last week he bumped the most important old-timer yet: Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, 51, director of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) and top go-between for Havana and Moscow...
...four years after the victory, Rodriguez edited the party daily Hoy, always seemed to turn up close to Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...
...administrative officer, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake. And predestination? "No, I don't believe in predestination, that gloomy theory that contradicts one of Christianity's chief wellsprings-hope," says Louis Armstrong, United Presbyterian layman and Denver businessman. Dowey eloquently sums up the spirit of the renovation: "The Reformed Church, if the name means anything, must always be willing to reform...