Word: das
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Development Advisory Service should keep its confidential memoranda out of public hands has gained little for those who wish to be better informed about that agency's widespread activities. The protest has subsided, and the documents remain private privilege. But what the episode has shown clearly is that DAS activities must not be assessed, nor can they be blindly defended, in connection with the free pass of knowledge which is commonly regarded as essential to the academic process...
...Bowie says, "Those who run the Center are Faculty members," implying by this that they are politically neutral. There are ten members of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the DAS. We have been able to get information about six of them. Robert Bowie was director of the Policy Planning Staff of the State Department, 1953-55, and AssistantSecretary of State for policy planning, 1955-57. He was a counselor to the Department of State, 1966-68. Hollis B. Chenery was Assistant Administrator of AID, 1962-65. He still works with AID, and since 1968 he has also been associated with...
...Bowie says, "The DAS provides its services only on invitation from a host country." Lyndon Johnson used to say, "We are in Vietnam at the invitation of the South Vietnamese government." In other words, an invitation from a host country does not mean much. The government that does the inviting does not necessarily represent the people. Indonesia's military dictatorship is a case in point. As Bowie says, "If you try to gauge the polities of the government, you'd never work for anyone. There are very few democratic governments around...
...Papanek says that the host government in Indonesia is not unduly influenced by its advisors, and that the government does not act in the best interests of its people. Yet the DAS claims it "played a major role in an attempt to alter the direction the economy was going." And the new direction clearly is not in the interests of the Indonesian people. As Newsweek reports, "So far, foreign investment has focused primarily on the extraction of raw materials-such as oil, timber, and aluminum-and will do little to help the general economy. In fact, few of these investments...
Most of the above information comes from published documents. We suspect the activities of the Center will be even more clearly exposed when we can all see the Interim Reports. We call on the DAS to release these reports now. And we call on all students, Faculty and employees of the University to join in a campaign to shut the Center down...