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...contingent that gathered at Cambridge Common numbered about 600, including George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, and Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics. Marching between rows of Boston Tactical Police, the contingent merged with groups of 500 from Boston University and Northeastern University and proceeded up Tremont St. to the Common...
Gustave Papanek refused to comment on the role of the DAS in the development of Pakistan, but John W. Thomas, current associate director of the DAS, agreed with many of the points voiced by MacEwan and other DAS critics...
...Arthur MacEwan was skeptical that even a tragedy of immense proportions like Pakistan would be enough to change the dominant development ideology epitomized by the DAS. "In the future, the DAS errors will not be as gross, but there will be no fundamental change," he predicted...
...MacEwan added that "the DAS policy in Pakistan was not a mistake, but a logical outgrowth of their ideology and values...
...from accurate to term the men of the DAS as slavering imperialists. They are well-meaning men who have labored in the far corners of the globe, but they have worn ideological blinders that have prevented them from realistically assessing the problems of developing nations. One hopes that Arthur MacEwan is wrong and that future development policies in the other DAS projects will change dramatically. One hopes that the Pakistan experience will teach the DAS that the elitist route to development is actually a frightening detour...