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According to MacEwan, "the DAS did not contradict the dominant trend of thought concerning development policy in Pakistan, but instead acted as one more buttress to the elitist theory of development and provided important technical expertise necessary to the implementation of that theory...
...MONTH ago, the initial response in foreign countries to President Nixon's economic blockbuster was a curious mixture of shock and sympathy. Although bankers, businessmen and government officials were stunned by the President's decisions, many said that Nixon was justified in taking drastic action to buttress the dollar. Last week quite a few of those leaders began to express a very different set of feelings. In Europe and Japan, they were muttering that the U.S. is refusing to compromise in solving major international problems that are largely of its own making...
...persuasive critical intelligence. He mocked the jargon of the human-potential movement. He described Esalen as a typically vulgar California contradiction-"the pursuit of the spirit without adequate traditions." But the confrontation had mortally wounded Miller's vanity. Far from home ground, he had no one to buttress his top-heavy personality. "Who would tell me I was good?" he whimpered when an Eastern colleague failed to respond sympathetically to his complaining letters. By this time his ego began to resemble a shriveled eggplant. Waves of anxiety paralyzed his will...
Drawing Distinctions. U.S. planners tried to make the Chinese and Soviet lists as identical as possible. They knew that even the slightest disparity would offend Peking and buttress Chinese suspicion that the U.S. and Russia are partners in a conspiracy to keep China economically and militarily weak. At present, Sino-American trade amounts to only about $3.5 million in indirect deals mainly for chemicals and diesel engines. Chinese trade officials in Hong Kong have told U.S. businessmen that they do not expect any significant increase in U.S.-China trade until the political problems, notably Taiwan, are solved...
...Army investigator what he had done at My Lai. He followed orders, Hutto said; the orders, by all accounts, had been to kill every living thing in the small village. The defense at Hutto's court-martial last week never refuted the statement. The prosecution was unable to buttress it with eyewitness testimony. But the precise facts concerning Hutto's actions seemed almost academic. Rather the issue became one of perception and intelligence at the bottom of the chain of command...