Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five Year Plan, is land inequality. Everywhere, the land question is primary, for it is the true source of village wealth and life. It is estimated that in one district, for example, 75 percent of the people are landless, and three percent own half the irrigated land. Land reform is officially under the control of the various State governments, unlike Community Development, which is administered from New Delhi...
...would like the French to recall their mission from Hanoi and quit dealing with Ho Chi Minh, to call the Vietnamese generals off Diem, and to get rid, once and for all, of Bao Dai. Only then could Diem tackle South Viet Nam's basic problems: speed land reform, strengthen the army and restore confidence...
...absence of a Pakistan constitution-from the British crown, which appointed him. Beside the Governor General stood the strongman of the Pakistan army, Major General Iskander Mirza. "I am dissolving the Constituent Assembly tomorrow," announced Ghulam to the Prime Minister. "You will remain Prime Minister, but you will reform your Cabinet. Major General Mirza will be your Minister of the Interior. General Ayub Khan will become Defense Minister as well as commander in chief . . ." Angrily, Ali turned on General Mirza and accused him of plotting behind his back; Mirza indifferently shrugged his big shoulders. Desperately, Ali wheeled back...
...four of Ali's most dangerous rivals from holding public office. Several Moslem League leaders, including two members of Ali's Cabinet, chose this moment to gang up on Ali. Ali flew home in a hurry. From Karachi airport Ali moved directly into conference with Ghulam Mohammad. "Reform your Cabinet," ordered Ghulam Mohammad, and Ali had to comply. Until the elections, which would show the U.S. which way its new ally was heading, the Pakistani to watch would be Governor General Ghulam Mohammad...
Last week the announcement of the latest extension of religion, the proposed "reform: of Phillips Brooks House, provoked an unexpectedly sharp reaction. Cornelius D. Hastic '52, graduate secretary of PBH, had stated that "the time has come once again to be true to the total purposes of Phillips Brooks House and its endowments." Referring to stipulations in the original grants, Hastie proposed to return "piety" to PBH by the addition of three religious groups: Catholic, Jewish, and a Protestant ecumenical association...