Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million in new state funds for public housing. What made the defeat even more chilling was the fact that Rocky's own Republican majority in the assembly ganged up to vote 63-16 against him. > Governor William Scranton rammed through the state assembly his much-beleaguered plan to reform Pennsylvania's rickety unemployment compensation laws (TIME, Feb. 21). So intense was Democratic feeling against the bill that the assembly nearly broke into a riot. Characteristically, Scranton said he was interested only in what the bill "is going to do for Pennsylvania." But no one could deny that...
...SALVADOR: In 1961 opposition parties were thoroughly discouraged when President Julio Rivera's National Conciliation Party won all 54 seats in the legislature. They even boycotted the presidential election the next year. A reform-minded, military man, Rivera was embarrassed, promised an honest count on the basis of proportional representation for 1964. The opposition remained skeptical but campaigned vigorously through the tiny Central American republic. When the votes were tallied, Rivera's party retained 32 Assembly seats; the Christian Democrats took 14 seats plus the mayoralty of San Salvador, while another middle-of-the-road party...
...Mann's four points, they sin more by omission than commission. There is no mention in his speech of the struggle for economic reform and social justice to which the United States pledged itself at Punta del Este. The agrarian reform and changes in tax structure which are fundamental prerequisites of meaningful development in Latin America can scarcely be attained by a policy of protecting U.S. interests. Mann's declared policy aims represent, in fact, the abandonment of all the promising features of the Alliance for Progress, and a regression to the diplomacy of short-sighted pecuniary interest characteristic...
...scuttle the Alliance was not unexpected in Latin America. Last November, former President Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia, a firm friend of the United States and of the Alliance, refused to head the inter-American committee which will administer the Alliance because he mistrusted Mann's views on social reform. But that the Alliance should be abandoned with so little ceremony was not foreseen. Mann's statement in effect gives a green light to the military in Latin America. With rightist elements in Brazil and eleswhere clamoring for military take-over in their countries, it will be suprising...
Next on Karume's agenda was land reform, a basic concern of any African revolutionary leader. Last week, Karume announced that the huge, Arab-owned clove and coconut plantations on the main island would be "reallocated." Also nationalized were the shops and houses of Stone Town, from the tops of their Moorish-styled roofs to their brass-studded mahogany doors. All of this could only please the black majority on whom Karume bases his popularity. Equally pleasing was his crackdown on those bastions of squash and snobbery, the clubs. Visiting British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys was sipping...