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...must adopt a new "double standard" of discrimination in favor of poor nations if it is to aid, rather than plunder, underdeveloped countries, Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal said last night...
...Myrdal, a diplomat-scholar famed for his classic study of American race relations, An American Dilemna, outlined the political conclusions and solutions he had drawn from his three volume An Asian Drama in a speech sponsored by the Harvard Law School Forum in Sanders Theatre...
Speaking with a thick Swedish accent, Myrdal said that Asian attitudes and institutions are the biggest drawbacks to progress. Asian states are "soft," he said, "in that they demand so little of their citizens." He added that "the laws are full of loopholes that the vested interests can exploit and so corruption has been increasing...
Phillip Whitten, president of the Ed School's Student Association, sent letters to President Johnson, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, Mrs. Coretta King and Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal asking them to intervene "in the name of humanity...
...threatened-if not actually practiced-by students, racial militants and antiwar dissenters. Such fears sound odd coming from, say, the impeccably rational Frenchmen who only recently applauded student anarchists in Paris. Even so, the U.S. is undeniably starting to lead all advanced Western countries in what Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal calls "the politics of assassination." No French President has been murdered since 1932; West German leaders go virtually unguarded; the last (and only) assassination of a British Prime Minister occurred...