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...former Harvard professor with a knack for stirring up controversy. As Assistant Secretary in Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department, he kicked up a fuss by issuing a hotly disputed report on female- headed black families. Five years later, as Richard Nixon's adviser on domestic policy, he urged "benign neglect" on racial issues, meaning that the Administration should let racial controversy cool before launching new civil rights initiatives. In the case of Social Security, Moynihan admits that he was out to attract notice through the political equivalent of hitting Congress over the head with a two-by-four. Says...
...Administration has finally realized that drastic action is needed to rebuild Afro-Am after years of neglect. Any single scholar offered tenure in Harvard's department is likely to decline--no one wants to study or teach at a university devoid of scholars in the same area of inquiry...
...Middle East and Latin America studies are currently targeted. I want to urge the Harvard administration to amend its plans in this regard, putting the field of African studies on a status of parity with Middle East and Latin American studies. The field of African studies has been badly neglected at Harvard--much more so than Middle East or Latin American studies--and we should not add insult to injury by continuing this neglect in Harvard's new capital campaign. Martin Kilson Professor of Government Acting Chair Committee on African Studies
With the crack epidemic spiraling out of control and the continuing threat of AIDS transmission through needle sharing, the research community and government leaders are showing new interest in medical approaches to drug addiction. After nearly a decade of relative neglect under the "Just Say No" Reagan Administration, the Federal Government has sharply increased funding to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which sponsors almost all of the world's drug-abuse research. In the past year NIDA's medications and basic-research budget jumped 50%, to $75 million, and Congress promises similar increases in the future...
During the Sixties President Lyndon B. Johnson tried to fight a war in Vietnam and a "War on Poverty." He couldn't do both. Now, with more money and innovative ideas, we can undo much of the neglect of the past 50 years...