Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main speech Lodge said, "Many Latin American communities need revolution, radical structure change," but that the "revolution" which took place in the small rural community where he worked to establish a school of management was the formation of 34 cooperative groups led by natives of the community...
...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, 64, during two tours and 29 months of duty in Saigon, has jjj overseen the wrenching political transition from Ngo Dinh Diem to Nguyen Cao Ky with rare aplomb. Lodge's deputy, William J. Porter, 52, took a scant 18 months to turn "rural pacification" from a Utopian dream to a viable program. But if the departing officials set a fast pace, the new team that Lyndon Johnson presented last week gives every promise of being able not only to keep it up but to improve...
...referred in his message to the Great Society or to the War on Poverty (he used the tepid phrase Strategy Against Poverty instead). But if the President was not about to charge ahead with vast new schemes, neither was he ready to retrench. He promised more federal aid to rural areas, where 43% of the nation's poor live, requested $1 billion for Community Action programs in urban areas, asked for $135 million to extend the preschool Operation Head Start through the first and second grades...
...corridors as prisoners accused of minor misdeeds are brought before a judge and sentenced by the dozen. President Johnson's commission suggests that misdemeanors should be handled in the felony courts, with their better judges and higher standards. The commission would also abolish the justice of the peace, rural counterpart of the lower court. Today the J.P. still operates in 35 states, and in most of these his pay comes from the fees and fines extracted from parties brought before him. His duties, says the commission, should be transferred to circuit or district courts...
...first few weeks, it seemed that the Assembly itself, rather than the government or the Viet Cong, would prove to be its own worst enemy. Most of the delegates were young (average age: 34), raw and rural, with nothing in their lifetime under the French or the Diem regime to prepare them for free debate or the subtleties of constitution making. Because they were all too representative-Buddhist, Catholic, Chinese, Montagnard, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai-fragmentism and special pleading became the order of the day. Among the first orders that went out were for selfish perks: drinking water on their...