Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus last week, in a region close to the Russian border, the Shah officially launched the land reform program that he had signed into law on Jan. 15. Under the law, worked out by idealistic Agriculture Minister Hasan Arsanjani (who insists on serving without salary), a landlord may be forced to sell most of his holdings, is compensated by the government over a ten-year period. The Shah, who in the last decade has distributed to peasants more than half of his own 1,500,000 acres, is one of the few Iranian landlords with any liking for reform. Most...
...Northern Catholic, then, to whom the U.S. decided to tie the survival of predominantly Buddhist South Vietnam. This in a region whose natives traditionally considered Northerners foreign and suspected Catholics of being pro-French. This also at a time when a majority of the population quite openly sympathized with the communist Viet Minh guerrillas who had been leaders of the Independence movement. It was absolutely necessary for Western strategy to create some kind of popular front to challenge the Communists at the general elections which the Geneva Treaty set for 1956 to unify the country. The general elections were never...
...leading objections to the psilocybin research. They say that psychological change, positive or negative depending on the individual's response to the experiment, will occur. They continue with the statement that when, as a result of the drug's action the mind enters a new region these regions may be returned to afterwards...
Since he is best known as the builder of Brasilia, he explained in some detail why he had felt the much-criticized new capital necessary. Describing the vast Western region of virgin forest and Indian tribes, where "per capita income is exactly zero," he stressed the importance of "immediate integration of that region with the economic life of the country...
Chairman Peter C. Goldmark '62 outlined the executive committee's plans to put the membership through intensive study of both political issues and educational techniques. Independent reading will alternate with weekly seminars to train students for speaking appearances before audiences in the Boston region. The committee said they would try to get engagements with civic organizations and others, including labor and church groups...