Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This hard core of conservative rural votes is supplemented by a large group of disgruntled emigrants from East Germany who feel the government has tacitly accepted the status quo and will leave relatives and friends under communist rule forever. To these votes are added the few Germans who are still anti-Semites or nationalists...
...whom hold that the proper arena for armed revolutionary struggle is the countryside. With the exception of Fidel Castro's Cuba, that kind of warfare has not been notably successful in Latin America. Venezuela fought off a bloody Communist challenge in the mid-'60s partly because rural folk often betrayed the guerrillas. Guevara himself was killed by government troops in 1967, when the Bolivian peasants he sought to stir up gave no support to his cause...
EASY RIDER. A hippie voyage of discovery featuring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directed) bombing cross-country on their cycles looking for the meaning of it all. The self-pity gets pretty thick at times, but there are some good vignettes of rural America and a supporting performance by Jack Nicholson that is worth the price of admission...
...there are a few bright examples. Through high-level planning, Russia, Britain, Venezuela and India have encouraged the rise of small cities to decentralize population. France and Bulgaria fostered new, strategically located regional centers. Switzerland and The Netherlands have attempted with some success to balance growth between cities and rural towns...
...fail in Texas, as long as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects us? That would be a fitting refrain these days in the Lone Star State, where five small, state-chartered banks have collapsed since April.* Their fatal maladies were, variously, loose lending policies, lax management, land speculation, declining rural communities and, in one instance, alleged embezzlement. Perhaps it only reflects the new permissive attitude of the times, but Texas depositors have taken the closings with carefree jollity. Says Robbie Ferguson Jr., cashier and vice president of the failed Big Lake State Bank: "At first I was so embarrassed that...