Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last-minute, personal lobbying than he has done for any bill so far in his Administration, and he thus incurred obligations that he might later find burdensome. Nor is Senate approval of the tax extension by any means certain. A Senate majority probably cannot be collected unless comprehensive tax reform is coupled with the surtax. Nixon was compelled to promise support for a reform bill this year, but whether a combined bill acceptable to all factions in both houses and the Administration can be worked out quickly is another matter. The temporary extension of the surtax expires July...
...supported conservatives, Husak has dismantled the last vestiges of Dubček's promising "Springtime of Freedom." The press, which was free and sassy for a few heady months in 1968, once again is tightly controlled. The journalists whose daring reporting helped fuel the Czechoslovaks' demands for reform have either been sacked or effectively muzzled. Radio and television now echo only the party line. The student union, the stronghold of the reformist youth, has been disbanded...
...protest. Many Latin American nations are also unhappy with themselves and in search of new paths to progress. That combination of frustration, militancy and venturesomeness last week made news in five South American countries: - In Peru, the military government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado decreed a sweeping land-reform program that included the expropriating of some U.S. interests. It was one of the most drastic -and potentially effective-such reforms ever proclaimed in Latin America. >In Argentina, terrorists firebombed 13 supermarkets owned by the International Basic Economy Corporation, a company controlled by the Rockefeller family. The fires, which destroyed seven...
...Peruvian government intends to compensate owners for the expropriation by paying cash for installations and issuing 20-year local-currency bonds for the land. It hopes that the bonds will be reinvested in either private or government industrial projects. Some cynics, unable to quite believe in genuine reform emanating from a military regime, contend that Velasco aims only at boosting the prestige of his military government and breaking the rival power of the oligarchy. They also worry that his program is concerned more with property rights than with production and productivity...
...from Lawrence (N.Y.) High School than he began shaking up the university. As a freshman, he persuaded the university administration to abolish the unpopular food-contract system, which forced his classmates to pay an annual rate covering all meals. As a sophomore, he organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean's special fund to spend a summer writing up the seminar's recommendations. Result: the 415-page "Magaziner Report," which Harvard Sociologist David Riesman has called "a herculean effort, an impressive document...