Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the turnout of almost 1.9 million blacks, or an estimated 64% of those eligible to vote, there were reservations over how much pressure to cast ballots had been exerted by whites, especially in rural areas. There were also suspicions that under-18 youths had been al lowed to vote illegally in some places. Moreover, some of the districts where the bishop's United African National Council party had won most handsomely registered figures that approached, or were even higher than the 100% of voters who had been thought to live there, reflecting either ballot-stuffing or poor population...
...neighbors gathered on five different nights last week for a few hours of discussion. Steelworkers, retired welders, grandfathers, young housewives with children on their laps, sipped coffee on borrowed chairs and swapped views on local and national problems: the endless waiting lines at the state hospital, the expulsion of rural squatters by land speculators, nonexistent sanitation and paving in their city. "Mud is the symbol of our lives," Joao, a retired steelworker, said angrily. "We live in mud, we are treated like mud." Later, as quietly as they had assembled, the groups of a dozen or so members broke...
...region's comunidades are equally radicalized. Most of Colombia's 5,000 or so predominantly rural comunidades have concentrated on spiritual pursuits like reading, Bible study or training non-priests to lead services in remote districts that the church does not reach regularly. One of that country's priests was asked by his bishop to leave the southern sugar-cane town of Puerto Tejada when he started to help the citizenry demand potable water. In Argentina, government repression has all but destroyed the comunidades. But elsewhere, throughout the hemisphere, the little groups have become a force...
Bechtal said relief organizations and churches distribute the formula in rural areas...
...selling it in urban areas to working upper-and middle-income mothers--in rural areas it's the relief agencies and churches that are supplying it," he added...