Word: eddison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rival delegations. Following the formal negotiating session, Salisbury's military commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, branded as "nonsense" the guerrillas' claim to equal status with his troops. "If anybody shoots at us," he warned ominously, "we will stop them from shooting any more." Front Spokesman Eddison Zvogbo angrily replied that "we are legal forces, we have equal status," and promised "severe retribution" against those who moved to deny that status...
HIID will dispatch a negotiating team to Mali in the next few months to discuss the terms of the contract, John C. Eddison, associate director of HIID, said yesterday. "We're not home free yet," Eddison said, but chances look good that we will reach an agreement and be working in Mali this summer...
...project will be HIID's first attempt at a "purely public health program," Eddison said. In the past the institute has primarily provided economic advice to developing countries. More recently, the HIID expanded its assistance to include limited agricultural development in kenya and rural development in the Sudan...
...Sudan project is much more like a peace corps project. The people are younger, they're living far more simply, putting up with much more hardship--they are out in the bush gathering data, living close to the land and the people," Eddison says...
...development--are barely aware of the work of HIID as Harvard's representatives in the Third World. "Our position is that we don't go out of our way to have public relations releases. It's not like we're trying to drum up business like a private firm," Eddison says. Unlike most other centers of research at Harvard, HIID makes no funds available to undergraduates who are interested in economic development projects. Cole says HIID has included funding for undergraduate research in many of the grants it has requested from foundations during the past several years, but the requests...