Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the toss-in. At one time, Kennedy had talked of tax reform as though it were just as important a part of his program as reduction. Now he made it perfectly plain that reduction, which in itself is reform of a sort, came first-and that overall reform might well be sacrificed. Answering questions from the floor, he said: "If we cannot get the reform, then quite obviously you are going to have to rewrite the package. That isn't our judgment of the best action. But I quite agree that what we need...
Which End of the Road? The next day's news stories reported that Kennedy had all but surrendered on tax reform. At that point, the President had some second thoughts. At his weekly breakfast with congressional leaders, he insisted: "I don't want anyone to get the idea that I'm against reform." A White House aide compounded the confusion. Kennedy, he said, had meant that he would give up reform only if he had reached "the end of the road, so to speak. We are at the start of the road, so his comments...
...question very much to the point in Latin America is whether a freely elected President who succeeds a dictator can reform his country into democratic stability -and how long it will take. Last week the question came up in the Dominican Republic, for more than 30 years the private preserve of the late Rafael Trujillo, where just such a President was inaugurated. The man: Juan Bosch, 53, a scholarly, silver-haired writer, ex-revolutionary and theoretical reformer-and Mr. Question Mark himself...
...elected, Bosch sent up reform programs like soap bubbles. Besides new hospitals, schools, old-age homes and better transportation, he promised to dole out 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its sugar crop, which accounts for 70% of the country's export earnings of $140 million. So Bosch has pledged credits to small businessmen. He also hopes to coax more and more tourists to the country's four major hotels, its nightclubs, its cool, fragrant mountains...
...Venezuela's Ró-mulo Betancourt and Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marin. He returned to the Dominican Republic 16 months ago, built his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a Betancourt-style voice of peasants and workers. At his best, Bosch seems to stand for sensible reform; at his worst, he indulges some of the erratic whims of a Jânio Quadros, Brazil's mercurial onetime President, who abdicated in 1961. Before the election, when a priest called Bosch a "Marxist-Leninist." he became so inflamed that he withdrew completely from the campaign-only...