Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the level of violence, the struggling civilian-military junta has continued to pursue its controversial, and surprisingly successful, land-reform program. Since March 1980, 790,000 acres of rich agricultural land have been expropriated from large landholders and are now farmed cooperatively by 62,000 peasant families. Next week, according to the government, the final block of 875,000 acres will be similarly taken over. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week visited one of the new cooperatives, the 960-acre Finca Florencia, a coffee plantation 24 miles northwest of San Salvador. His report...
...hard work and clean living. The scene looked familiar-an absentee landlord come to survey his patrimony, perhaps. In fact, the speaker was José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, a member of El Salvador's ruling junta and head of the country's far-reaching land-reform program. The campesinos represented 14 new cooperative farms in the area, encompassing 31,148 acres and 1,551 peasant families. They had come to watch Ehrlich swear in their newly elected representatives and hear him discuss the future of the program that had given them title to estates on which their families...
They will have to work even harder than before. El Salvador's land-reform program is based on the hope that the country's peasants will be willing to do so, and that land ownership will wean their loyalty away from the leftists and toward the government. The appearance of Ehrlich, who is touring the new cooperatives "village by village, finca by finca," is evidence of the degree to which the government has staked its future on land reform's success. At the Finca Florencia, he told campesinos of the risks and hardships ahead. "Now that power...
...president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Boyer has launched a crusade for general education. On most campuses, he says, it has become a cluttered "spare room" thoughtlessly located in student schedules somewhere between electives and degree-program courses. Boyer kicked off his crusade last week at a conference for 200 scholars and foundation executives at the University of Chicago. Participants received a 68-page Carnegie essay touting general education as an antidote to "self-preoccupation and social isolation." Its message: "All students should come to understand that they share with others the use of symbols, membership...
...private jurist program resembles arbitration, a widely used procedure that calls on a non-judge to resolve disputes typically involving labor contracts. But the California procedure has some features that arbitration does not. Examples: the judge must adhere to regular procedural and substantive aspects of law, and decisions can be appealed...