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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...begin at the beginning and, after building a strong, democratic base, to construct the structure above." What emerged was a political system based on the ancient institution of the village panchayat (council of elders). Each council, with elected as well as appointed representatives, will represent 10,000 people. Working without salaries, council members will be expected to levy local taxes, maintain roads, operate police forces, register births and deaths, and handle some 30 other jobs, from the promotion of sports to the disposal of dead animals. None of the candidates has been permitted to run under party labels...
...security" bill that will give him more drastic powers than any colonial governor has ever had in a British territory not in a state of war or emergency. The governor would be able to control the territory's press, prohibit meetings, conscript labor and supplies, and detain troublemakers without trial. "It is with no enthusiasm that we who have been nurtured in the tradition of English law are compelled to introduce such measures," said Sir Evelyn, but the British strongly fear that Northern Rhodesia may yet become another Kenya...
...Explains INRA's day-to-day boss, Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 36, who got the job because he fought hard in Castro's army, and is the author of a Marxist Geography of Cuba: "Accounting is no problem; everybody here is honest." Without benefit of ledgers, INRA has run through $70 million this year...
...million. The bank workers' checkoff has so far yielded $20 million. The revolution's faithful can toss their spare change into big INRA barrels at Havana airport. And if money runs short, INRA has decree power to "rent safety deposit boxes, borrow money with or without interest, open and close current accounts of any kind with any bank or banks, in any type of money." In 1960 INRA plans to spend $160 million...
...many small classes. And a "high-quality" school that maintains an extra-low teacher-student ratio may be fooling itself: when it has more teachers than it can pay adequately, their performance suffers. By increasing the ratio, says the report, "most colleges can ease their financial problems very substantially without reducing the quality of their instruction...