Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists still belong to the old-fashioned liberalism. After the Kennedy demonstration, delegates whooped through by voice vote several of the Senator's economic planks that seem out of touch with the realities of inflation and the mood of the country, including a call for a $12 billion jobs program that Carter had warned he could not accept. The Senator himself won 1,146.5 votes on the final roll call, to Carter's 2,129, an unheard-of performance for a man whose name was never formally placed in nomination, and who officially released his delegates to vote as they...
Somehow the party must balance the new awareness of fiscal reality that even Kennedy delegates feel with the traditional commitment shared by Carterites that all Americans should have a fair chance to achieve the good life. If the party cannot yet communicate to the people a detailed program for achieving its vision, it at least must offer a firm sense that it knows where it wants to go. That was lacking last week...
...Mercready and Carter. At Mercready's suggestion, the World Bank sent the partners (accompanied by Jeffs wife Annette) to Manila to make a study of solid-waste disposal in the city. The project, for which they were paid $10,000, was part of an ambitious slum rebuilding program that is the special cause of Imelda Marcos, wife of Strongman President Ferdinand Marcos...
...threat comes from within his own party. Mugabe's moderate policies have come under bitter attack from radicals like Tekere, who have called for a hard line socialist program and the expropriation of white wealth. There was the potential for a bitter internecine conflict if Mugabe were to allow a white-dominated police and judiciary apparatus to convict Tekere. The fierce, short-tempered nationalist (see box) holds the third high est party rank and commands a loyal following among many of the 25,000 guer rillas who remain in training camps scattered around the country...
Economically, the new regime has concocted a potpourri of socialism and private enterprise, a program dictated less by ideology than dire need. When they took over last year, the Sandinistas inherited a $1.5 billion national debt, $1.3 billion in war damages and an impoverished, largely peasant population. The government launched a number of ambitious reforms, from a sweeping agrarian redistribution and nationalization of banks to a literacy campaign that has already taught some 600,000 people to read and reduced the country's illiteracy rate from 50% to about...