Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts, in South Africa are these: after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, in which the government simply destroyed the internal opposition, the foundations of apartheid were sunk sleeper and deep into South African society. From 1960 to 1974. 1.5 million Blacks were forcibly relocated from "white" rural or urban areas to be kept in tin shacks in the destitute bantustans or homelands. Petty legal segregation was extended. The apparatus of the police state was crested, including a law permitting unlimited detention without trial. Despite these Draconian measures, the South African economy soared. Only the others country--Japan--outpaced South African...
Washington's best hope for an effective attack against Peru's coca producers was a U.S.-financed, 220-man force called the Rural Mobile Patrol Unit. Yet hardly had the understaffed and poorly equipped force entered the field than it was shadowed by rumors--all of which it denies--that it was under-reporting drug seizures, making wrongful arrests and openly filching money and goods from peasant homes. In retaliation, guerrilla-directed campesinos bombed police stations and ambushed drug busters. A score of policemen were killed. As the mutinous spirit quickened, the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry began...
...Administration failed to quell the uproar by announcing, the day after Stockman's testimony, a change in the rules under which it is offering $650 million in loan guarantees to banks that renew credit to debt-burdened farmers (the previous rules were so unattractive to rural bankers that they have accepted only $25 million in guarantees since the program began last September). Bipartisan groups of legislators, claiming that tens of thousands of farmers face bankruptcy before they can get their crops planted this spring, readied bills to force a vastly greater expansion of loan guarantees. One measure being drafted...
...likely to make the battle over credit guarantees look like a warm-up skirmish. To Stockman and Secretary of Agriculture John Block, the current farm troubles are a sign that 52 years of heavy Government involvement in agriculture have led both farmers and taxpayers to a dead end. Rural prosperity, they believe, can be rebuilt in the long run only by a long-overdue and surely painful transition to a leaner system that forces farmers to compete with little Government aid in markets at home and abroad. Says Block: "This country can no longer afford large, explosive, open-ended budget...
...Budget Committee. Serious debate on the farm bill will probably not begin until late summer, and then it will be enmeshed with the fight over the sweeping cuts in government spending for other domestic programs that the Administration is proposing. The outcome may depend on log-rolling between rural and urban lawmakers, trading votes for their favorite programs...