Word: reformations
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This week Goulart was thrown out by the military which had deposed Vargas and Quadros before him. Getulio Vargas, a reforming dictator, committed suicide in 1954 when the army foiled his attempt at land reform. Quadros had been forced out in 1961 for a "pro-Communist" foreign policy. Now Goulart had favored both land reform and an independent foreign policy. Since he knew from the experience of his predecessors that one could only institute reforms from a position of total power, he undoubtedly planned to grasp that power before the army dispensed with him. He lost, however...
...theoretically possible that the new government will take a progressive president and give him the power to push the reforms through which Goulart was powerless to achieve; this is the liberal justification for U.S. support of the coup. But given the political complexion of the new regime, and the past history of the man who made up its leadership, such reform is not likely to take place...
...Goulart's most explosive moves to date was to decree an "agrarian reform" program to take over idle farmland along federal highways, railroads and reservoirs. The decree was sheer demagoguery, since the government has long had legal power to take over these lands, but has always lacked the cash to compensate the owners. To the peasants, Tango's loudly touted decree is simply a hunting license to grab the land. The government-sponsored, Communist-bossed National Peasant Confederation has even assured Brazil's peasants that the land decree "is an instrument that the peasants...
Equally important, as far as the Common Market was concerned, Franco began to reform Spain's backward economy. Many rigid state controls on prices and production were abolished, and foreign investors began priming the Hispanic pump. Spain's annual industrial output climbed at a rate of 11% a year; gross national income rose at 6% to a record $13 billion last year. Gold and foreign-currency reserves, a paltry $65 million five years ago, now total $1.2 billion...
Died. Brendan Francis Behan, 41, professional Irish tosspot and boyo terrible, semiprofessional writer of wit and distinction, a pudgy, rumpled, onetime juvenile terrorist for the I.R.A. who staggered into the limelight in 1958 with his scabrous reform-school memoir, Borstal Boy, two brilliantly nihilistic plays of Dublin low jinks, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, but despite faint, repeated vows to stay "off the gargle" subsequently squandered his fireworks in binges from Los Angeles to London; of diabetes, jaundice and acute alcoholism; in Dublin...