Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What about the other Republican possibilities? New York's Governor Rockefeller finally rammed a liquor-law reform bill through his state legislature. Since the vital votes came from the Bronx machine headed by aging Democratic Boss Charles Buckley, the victory was hardly one to enhance Rocky's G.O.P. prestige. After the vote he sighed: "Now I'm free to return to the national scene." He left almost immediately for Oregon...
...ahead is staggering. It is, as one Brazilian calls it, a "mandate for insomnia." Brazil's economy is an inflationary wreck, its politics a shambles. Reform will demand sacrifice. It will be up to Castello Branco and his government to justify the high price that Brazilians may have...
Friend of Fidel. Such is the discontent that feeds Allende's candidacy. A physician who turned to politics, Allende prescribes massive reform for Chile's ills: 1) a strict, centrally planned economy; 2) "authentic" land reform, meaning the expropriation of all large farms; and 3) nationalization of the U.S. copper companies. He terms Castro a "political genius," has Fidel's picture on his office wall and a framed blowup of the Declaration of Havana hanging in the hall outside. He openly calls himself a Marxist. "But I am not a Communist," he says, "and that is very...
Manuel Ray, former Minister of Public Works under Castro, yesterday described his efforts to undo the "destructive revolution" in Cuba and to promote peaceful reform elsewhere in Latin America...
There is little point in mourning Goulart. He was a fiercely independent leftist prepared to sacrifice democracy for the power to mold the reforms he felt his country needed in order to survive. He did hate the United States; if an allegiant rather than an independent world is the U.S. aim, the State Department should be glad to see him go. But there is even less point in glorifying the coalition that has replaced him: it is opposed to meaningful reform, and it remains to be seen whether it will stand so religiously beside democracy when democracy promises to vote...