Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely ignores the role of reform and the non-Communist left in Latin America and offers no hint as to what American policy should be toward them. And, for all its importance as a symbol and possible "base for subversion," Cuba is merely a small and unimportant island when compared with Brazil or Venezuela...
...recognized Rab's talents and in 1941 offered him a choice between the important Ministry of Information and the backwater Board of Education. Remote as it was from the war effort, Butler plumped for education, knowing that it would be one of the key areas of postwar social reform. When he thanked Churchill for the job, legend has it that the Prime Minister retorted: "I meant it as an in sult." Nonetheless, the highly acclaimed Butler Act in 1944 became the master plan for Britain's present-day educational system, and its author joined the Cabinet...
Tories for his cell-to-ceiling program of reform for Britain's Dickensian prison system. Since 1962, when he was named First Secretary of State, Butler has supervised a variety of thankless tasks, notably mapping independence for the three states of the Central African Federation. He is outspokenly pro-American and, with Foreign Secretary Lord Home, has probably been the staunchest Cabinet advocate of British membership in President Kennedy's "mixed manned" multilateral force...
George Saunders '60, a staff writer for Militant, declared that the Nhus' land reform is primarily a duplication of the earlier French program. Neither the French nor the Diem regime have executed their reforms, be added, while the Viet-Cong have gained power by effectively carrying out their promises to the peasants...
Each time an incident has highlighted the unpopularity of the Diem regime, the United States has publicly called for reform in South Vietnam. Yet this occasional open U.S. pressure has produced no substantial reforms, as recent events have so clearly illustrated. Still American money--now at the rate of a million a day--has poured in to sustain the Diem regime. And Diem, knowing that the U.S. thinks it needs him as much as he needs the U.S., has managed to maintain himself in the style he wishes...