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This clanging rhetoric drowns out certain facts. As has been universally reported, both the Communists and the Thieu forces have regularly violated the ceasefire. Nor is there any question that American equipment and know-how are still of help to Saigon's military machine. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott concludes that "on balance, Martin's elaborate rebuttal does little to demolish the Shipler story's central theme." Scott points out, though, that Shipler might have chosen one key word more carefully. It is difficult to prove that U.S. assistance "directly" supports violations, as Shipler argued...
...attempt by the powerless to conform to what is accepted as the best and most efficient by the nations that wield the most power. And this is the problem that faces those "backward, underdeveloped" nations of the third world for whom the superpowers are so willing to supply technological know-how: Western science and technology developed as an outgrowth of the social setting in which they were born: Western Europe. The importation of western science necessitates the importation of that system of training as well as of the very manner and setting, the value and priorities of the western scientific...
...therefore impossible, given the structure of the world economy, for these underdeveloped nations to give birth to their own unique scientific and technological traditions. Profit-maximizing corporations, governments liberating the natives from their "ignorance" and "self-sacrificing" individuals send in some scientific and industrial know-how. But natives must still emigrate to attend western institutions for their modern education, and return to their homelands with western values and techniques to guide their nations' development...
There is no reason to assume that the Watergate tapes have been tampered with; that would be a major undertaking. Most experts believe that the necessary know-how could not be found in the U.S. Government, not even among the engineers of the Army Strategic Communications Command. Such skills are scarce even outside Government. Estimates of the number of people able to accomplish the task range from half a dozen to 1,000. Moreover, not even a qualified man with the nerve and skill of the Jackal would be enough. He would also have to be willing to leave himself...
...Until the U.N. can persuade its own members to abide by rules to which all have theoretically agreed, it is unlikely to be able to influence private corporations. But proponents of U.N. involvement hope that the probe will strengthen member nations' efforts to harness multinationals' capital and know-how to the cause of equitable development. If so, last week's little-noted hearings may be the opening peep in a debate that will eventually grow much larger...