Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to rural development and pacification, I will pay particular attention this year to the matter of land reform-and in a revolutionary manner. If the government works for a better life for the people, they are ready to cooperate. The population likes progress. I do not think that the population believes that the Communists can do the same thing for them. That is our ideal...
...more state and federal aid. With acid eloquence, Mayor Addonizio recently declared: "America is not prepared to save its cities, and the cities are not in a position to save themselves." If this situation continues, Newark and cities like it will become, in effect, as inherently unequal as the rural South in the days of Jim Crow...
Several years ago a lay psychoanalyst who had been studying people in Morelos announced in The Atlantic that all rural people hate the land from which they grab their living. Land is fickle, he said, yielding some years and not others. Why then were the campesinos of Morelos willing to give up their lives to secure tiny fields for their children? I get from Womack's book the same feeling I have gotten from watching campesinos in other parts of Mexico talk about land. It is not something you love or hate, it is a part...
...Pollack says that the plan was deliberately contrived to work within the existing private carriers. But some critics have charged that this plan really doesn't solve the distribution dilemma: it offers better service to America's insurance-buying suburbanites, but it seems to turn down the urban an rural who can never scrape together insurance premium payments...
...founding ceremonies as observers. As it happened, the only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been assigned by the Texas Council to work for rural self-determination in the Rio Grande Valley. The protesters were quickly assured that the conference would work "aggressive ly, creatively and risk its very life" on be half of the workers...