Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party, which wanted to bring Tafilalet in line with the rest of forward-moving Morocco. "The Istiqlal," said Addi, "is a menace to our Sultan," i.e., it menaced Addi. Most of the Tafilalet caids (the local tribal rulers) were Addi's sons or retainers, and the nationwide judiciary reform, which ruled that caids must be replaced by government-appointed judges, struck at the roots of tribal power. When the national government sent inspectors and emissaries, Addi jailed a few. He rejected a summons to Rabat and began assembling his Berber warriors...
...rebuked publicly for an article on epilepsy because it challenged the Prophet's statement that epilepsy was caused by jinn. A man who steals pays with the loss of his hand; public amputations are commonplace (one result: Arabia has probably the lowest crime rate in the world). Social reform comes hard when slavery, sanctioned by Mohammed, still exists, though Saudis protest that slaves are well treated and often freed by owners eager to gain credit with Allah (old Ibn Saud used to release one every Friday after prayer). Tax reform is blocked by the Koran...
...political reform, the Koran says nothing of democracy. Neither does King Saud. Said one official: "The constitution we follow is the Koran. We don't want to replace this with any other thing...
Police methods have proven on the whole unfortunate. It is probably true that reform schools have seldom reformed anybody, and those in Massachusetts are no exception to the rule. Nor has the cop on the beat5Basketball provides a temporarily constructive release of energy...
...aisle to vote with Labor in censuring the government's inaction in depressed areas. The task of his generation, he cried, was "to conquer poverty ... To invent new social devices for the regulation of plenty." In a 1938 book called The Middle Way, he urged government planning to reform the economic order and create welfare services, was promptly labeled a "Conservative New Dealer," and backbenchers dismissed his whole group as Y.M.C.A. boys. Wrote Macmillan: "The dynamic of social change resides in our discontent with things as they are. If that discontent is shared by the comfortable as well...