Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many a Christian, disgusted by prosaic sermons, repelled by archaic dogma and beset by honest doubts, will find renewed hope in your Dec. 25 issue. No reform-social, political or religious-filters down from the top; it rises from the bottom, out of an undeniable need. For Christians of all sects your article has brought that need into sharp focus...
...starter, Barrientos is drafting a major reform of the country's vital tin-mining industry that will break the government's twelve-year monopoly on tin-ore exporting and create a free market to encourage more small-and medium-sized operators...
...outspoken association of 40,000 judges, lawyers and law professors from more than 60 non-Communist countries does not really expect to reform the world. But it is convinced that publicizing any infraction of the rule of law serves an immediate and practical purpose. The presence and protest of a commission jurist at the 1960 "trial" of deposed Democrats in Turkey transformed that mob-ringed Roman circus overnight into an orderly judicial proceeding. And the glare of the commission's carefully documented study, Spain and the Rule of Law, eventually persuaded once furious Spanish officials to discuss incommunicado detentions...
...coalition" with which King hopes to work includes a hefty measure of what his more radical adversaries within the movement damn as "establishment groups": The churches, the unions, the NAACP, the Liberal Democrats. In fact, the coalition is so broad that it can seek gradual reform, but hardly social revolution. If the reforms come thick and fast enough, King may hold most of the Negro leaders in line behind him. But the signs aren't hopeful. Revolutions have a momentum of their own, and a way of passing old leaders...
...with the addition of many new liberal Democrats in the 1964 election, the majority for reform dropped by only 16 votes. This indicates not only that there is a strong liberal majority, but that the leadership will not have to pay the price for cooperation from reluctant southerners and Republicans...