Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matyas Rakosi is the kind of old Communist revolutionary who left talk about civil liberties, land reform and the like to the parlor set. At 27 he was a hard-bitten commissar in the regime of Hungarian Red Terrorist Bela Kun; at 28 he was in Moscow as a secretary of the Comintern Executive, perfecting methods for smuggling agents into foreign lands, and capturing control of trade unions...
Naguib's undiplomatic show of strength accomplished its purpose. . Aly Maher's cabinet announced the details of the army's land-reform law, and proclaimed...
Some 70 years ago, a reform-minded general named Arabi Pasha led his brother officers in overthrowing a corrupt Egyptian government. After a sharp look at the crusading officers, England's great colonizer, Lord Milner, wrote: "It is possible to approve their aims and yet to disbelieve entirely in their capacity to carry them out." Eight months after he took power, Arabi fell, unable to control the forces he had unleashed...
Country & People: 175,000 square miles, largely arid, and some 5,000,000 people, mostly living in diseased, ill-clothed, ill-fed poverty. The infant mortality rate is 500 per 1,000 births. Iraq is strategically important, with estimated oil reserves of 10.5 billion barrels. Needs honest government, land reform...
...most Middle Eastern periodicals, which are merely organs for political parties, the Amins' staff of 800 is rigorously uncommitted to anything but fighting corruption and working for Middle Eastern democracy. "Other papers are for parties and politicians," explained Mustafa. "We're for the people. The opportunity for reform was never better in Egypt than right now." Adds Ali: "We'll see that it isn't missed...