Word: das
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bowie claims that "the Center has never received any CIA support." In fact, all contracts of DAS personnel are co-signed by the Institute of International Education (HE). The HE is funded by such CIA conduits as the William Benton, the Dearborn, the Asian, and the Rubicon Foundations, as well as by GM, the Bank of America, and Standard Oil. In addition, the CFIA has held joint seminars with the Center for International Studies, an M.I.T. Social Science Research center, which is funded by the OIA on a permanent basis. Further insight into the nature of government for the Center...
...Bowie says, "The Center has not concentrated on Southeast Asia." Thirty-two per cent of the DAS budget (15 per cent of the total CFIA budget) goes to projects in Southeast Asia...
...Study of the Successful Military Coup d'Etat in Modern Polities"; 3) "Social Science Research for National Unity" (about Malaysia); 4) "Administration and Management of Communal Conflict" (about Malaysia); 5) "The Myth of the Guerrilla"; 6) "New Directions for the Banking System" (about Indonesia). These titles are from the DAS alone...
...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...