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...DAS director, who began a three-year term of office on July 1, added that the agency would give increased consideration to the social and cultural impact of economic growth in Third World countries. One of the differences between the DAS and the government's development program, he said, "is that our University surroundings encourage and make it possible for us to rethink what we're doing...
Leftist students and Faculty members have criticized the DAS on the grounds that its operations, while neither sponsored nor sanctioned by the U. S. government, have invariably aided the economic interests of American corporations who do business abroad...
They have been particularly critical of the DAS' involvement in Indonesia, a nation whose military government is friendly to American investors, and Liberia, whose economy is virtually dominated by Firestone Rubber and Bethlehem Steel...
...DAS officials last month denied these charges, pointing out that their advisors have often counselled foreign governments against disadvantageous trade agreements with the U. S. They said that corporate representatives had once asked the American Embassy in Liberia to try to curtail DAS activity there...
Papanek said that the DAS has undertaken several major changes in its eight-year existence, including...