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...series of confidential memoranda circulated within Harvard by officials of the Development Advisory Service (DAS) indicates that an important purpose of the DAS' economic work in Indonesia has been to provide political support for the military, Western-oriented regime of General Suharto...
...memoranda-made available by a west coast journalist to whom the DAS leaked them last March-suggested ways in which Suharto and his retinue of economists, civil servants, industrialists, and military personnel might make use of basic economic policy to broaden their domestic political base...
...there were others in the DAS who did not feel as complacent about the agency's actions. One such person was Alfred Conrad, who taught at the Harvard Business School and served for five years as an overseas economic consultant in the DAS. Conrad now holds an economics chair at the City University of New York...
Questioning the ability of a small DAS field team to deter the Greek regime from carrying out a few arrests, Conrad said last month, "I never understood the logic of that and I don't still. At the time, I didn't like the idea of Harvard showing either the Crimson or any other flag [in Greece...
...role of the DAS in Greece is, to me, unclear. The limited involvement there is insignificant and not typical of the DAS' larger and more meaningful projects. For these reasons, I decided that an analysis of the Greek episode would have added nothing to my article except length...