Word: rural
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...million Poles waited patiently in an open field near the Franciscan monastery that Kolbe had founded. Most of them were peasants who had traveled from nearby farms, sometimes in horse-drawn carts, for a glimpse of John Paul. One banner held above the crowd bore the insignia of Rural Solidarity, the independent farmers' union that was organized in May 1981 and dissolved in October 1982. But there were also more traditional symbols of Polish patriotism, including an ensign emblazoned with a golden Polish eagle wearing a royal crown and brandishing a cross. The crowd roared enthusiastically when it caught...
During a Mass in memory of Kolbe, John Paul spoke of the plight of Poland's private farmers. He praised church-related agricultural groups that had once served as the nucleus of Rural Solidarity for striving "to restore to your work in the fields its own special dignity." Then John Paul counseled the crowd "to overcome evil with good." Said he: "It is the program of the gospel, a program that is difficult but possible, a program that cannot be dispensed with...
...ethos that linked virtue to reward through honest toil is in deep trouble. Granted, the nostalgia for Wood's Midwest is now laced with self-evident ironies; one might say that it is a nostalgia not so much for a rural way of life as for a means of seeing a rural ethos without irony. The revival of Grant Wood is as good a cultural index of Reagan's America as the launching of Robert Rauschenberg was of Kennedy...
Sendero claims to be fighting for Peru's 15 million rural and largely impoverished Indians and mixed bloods. They bitterly resent the nation's 3 million whites, who have dominated Peru's economy and politics ever since the Spanish conquest in 1533. The threat of ethnic conflict has been partly responsible for a surprising show of unity behind Belaúnde's emergency measures, which even leftist Opposition Leader Senator Enrique Bernales admitted were "justified...
...even as Mexico tries to hold the line against disaster, its biggest problems remain largely unsolved. Two-thirds of the country's 76 million people live as rock-poor campesinos on subsistence farms in some of the worst rural and urban slums anywhere in the world. Undernourishment is widespread. Four of ten Mexicans never drink milk; two of ten never eat meat, eggs or bread. They live mainly on tortillas and refried beans. Some government solutions seem almost pitiful. Coca-Cola and other soft drinks are subsidized to sell for a pittance of 6? because their sugar content...