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...ruling sounded more fitting for El Salvador than the U.S. Indeed, last week's Supreme Court decision upholding Hawaii's right to break up large privately held estates and redistribute ownership to the tenants seemed downright radical. But the unanimous 8-0 ruling* was made for the most conservative of reasons. Said Hawaii's deputy attorney general Michael Lilly: "It's a classic states' rights case...
...tiny blue-and-white Salvadoran flags, vendors sliced tangy strips of green papaya for hungry onlookers. The sizzle of hot dogs on the grill mixed with the blare of Chuck Mangione jazz over the loudspeakers. When each of the 45 foreign delegations was introduced, the velodrome in downtown San Salvador reverberated with the applause of 6,000 spectators. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, his placid expression breaking into a grin, received the second longest ovation. But the loudest and wildest cheers went to the onetime civil engineer whose appearance on the stage elicited thunders of "Duarte! Duarte! Duarte!" After...
...long-term effects of that election are difficult to assess. The Reagan Administration has sparked a lot of criticism, and in the spring of freshman year 2000 people marched through the Yard and the streets to protest the United States policy toward El Salvador. Two years later, several hundred students showed up at a demonstration against draft registration...
...tiller program, also went ahead in 1980. It allowed an estimated 117,000 landless farmers and their families to purchase the small (up to 17 acres) plots that they had previously worked as tenants or sharecroppers. In all, some 228,230 acres of land, or 6% of El Salvador's cultivated area, was subject to change of ownership under Phase...
Initially, the land-reform program was viewed with distaste by the Reagan Administration: the White House did not approve of government expropriation of private property. Gradually, however, the Administration has embraced agrarian reform as the kind of worthy effort in El Salvador that justifies large accompanying doses of U.S. military aid. Duarte left no doubt in Washington last week that, although he would water down some of his more liberal economic views, he would not sacrifice land reform to please El Salvador's conservative business community. On the contrary, Duarte's election could accelerate the process...