Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned steely grey with the approach of the monsoon, but in the laced paddies of North Viet Nam's Red River delta last week, the rice still stood thick and unharvested. The Communists' vaunted land-reform program had gone badly wrong. In some areas it had created such chaos that no peasant knew whose land he was to harvest, and whole villages had turned savagely on their Communist mentors and run them out of town...
...fierce-eyed man with a bulging forehead named Truong Chinh-called "Little Uncle" in recognition of his role as heir apparent to "Great Uncle" Ho Chi Minh. Back in 1951 Truong Chinh was named secretary-general of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party, and launched a ferocious campaign of land reform. His slogan: "Better kill ten innocent people than let one enemy escape." Son of a landlord mandarin himself, Truong let his own parents die at the hands of his land reformers, declaring coldly: "The people's court was right...
There's not much to be done about Boston anymore. But people still try. Louis M. Lyons writes that "Boston has probably had more reform organizations per square foot than any other great city." But few people seem to care. While sky highways are built over much of the North End, and a parking lot will some day burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains, and the building looks...
Lest it somehow be dimmed by unexpected reform, the U.P.'s reputation for pinching the penny is affectionately kept alive by an ever-expanding organization of U.P. alumni called The Downhold Club -an echo of the constant warnings to "downhold" expenses that emanate from U.P.'s headquarters in the New York Daily News building...
...much of the world fell for the slogans about the Chinese Reds as mere agrarian reformers, about Nationalist corruption, etc.. it was, says Chiang, partly his government's fault: "We lacked initiative in propaganda and substance in ideology." The Red victory, by Chiang's reckoning, was only 20% military; for the rest he details the case histories of treachery, infiltration, propaganda, the exploitation of an uprooted social order. One of the Reds' earliest tactics, recalls Chiang, was to incite the poor of a village to loot before Communist agents burned down the house of the landlords...