Word: das
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gustay Papanek, lecturer on Economics, has stepped down as director of Harvard's Development Advisory Service (DAS), and Lester E. Gordon, former deputy director, has succeeded him in the post...
...DAS is the so-called "activist" wing of the Center for International Affairs, an on-campus institute that performs independent research on foreign policy issues. Funded primarily by the Ford Foundation and the United Nations Development Group, the DAS advises governments of underdeveloped countries on economic matters. It has no connection with the U. S. government...
...DAS continued to work with him. It did not take issue with him because its subservient relationship with the Pakistani government imposed unbreakable obligations of loyalty and confidentiality. Why, then, did they not break off the project there and then? If they were any more meaningful than cabinet-level clerks, would they not have done so? And if the DAS amounts to no more than a collection of highly skilled technicians, are its activities in six foreign countries the proper place for men who should be concerned with the very broadest possible issues of development...
...Indonesian episode poses largely the same questions. According to Gustav F. Papanek, who served for six years as DAS director, the Indonesian government is "one of the most self-assured and independent governments-in the economic sphere-that I know of. They'll use foreigners for advice on technical problems, but there's no question who runs the show...
...been converted and now behaves like an army of occupation." The hope of the Indonesian people for a better life after the overthrow of Sukaron's abusive political and economic policies has met with mass murders, political concentration camps, and massive American "aid" and investment. And where does the DAS stand among all this...