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During a political journey to Georgia last week, where the President encountered Governor Lester Maddox, greeted black schoolchildren and pressed the flesh in behalf of Hal Suit, the Republican candidate for Governor, Nixon repeatedly paid tribute to backers of his plan in both parties. "It was a bipartisan speech," he proclaimed. "There was no partisanship in it. When people are working for peace, there are no politics in it." The Senate quickly and unanimously voted a resolution of support. Even though a lone irate Republican in Congress telephoned Henry Kissinger to complain that Nixon should have saved the speech until...
Asked about the damage, Lester E. Gordon, director of the Center Development Advisory Service, said, "A good portion of the University's core library on underdeveloped countries has been destroyed...
...addition, advice provided by the DAS to the Suharto government on regulating or curtailing foreign investment has been prompted in part by considerations of potential political difficulties, Papanek and Lester E. Gordon, the present director of the DAS, said yesterday...
Gustay Papanek, lecturer on Economics, has stepped down as director of Harvard's Development Advisory Service (DAS), and Lester E. Gordon, former deputy director, has succeeded him in the post...
...best interest of their host governments-often advising many of them to beware lopsided agreements with American traders and agencies-the DAS teams continued to tolerate the principle of exploitative American investment and the permissibility of American intervention. To take one striking example, as rendered by Lester E. Gordon,. the present director of the DAS, "We concluded early in the game that Liberia's decision to have foreign investors [Firestone Rubber and Bethlehem Steel] exploit their resources was their own business...