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Ironclad Rule. The teams live and eat with their patients, and often have to rough it in hostile terrain. When Peru's mountain dwellers showed reluctance to come to M.S.F.'s field hospitals after the 1974 quake, the doctors climbed the Andes by mule and horseback to reach the injured. By ironclad rule, they are scrupulously nonpartisan; no nation has ever rejected them for political reasons. In the Viet Nam, October and Angolan wars, M.S.F. offered help to all; the doctors themselves have so far sustained no casualties. They are also unfazed by the unexpected; after Nicaragua...
...retreat to a foreign base, began in both cases to seriously alienate the peasantry and created an obstacle to further development of the resistance movement. The peasant population resented the technique whereby roving guerrilla bands moved in and out of combat zones while the peasantry, who remained on the terrain, often suffered vicious Portuguese reprisals...
...exhibit a "professorial worldiness" marked by "their eagerness to sell their advice, to fly to exotic meetings ground," and worst of all, by "their loyalty to the profession over the institution." As a result of the intrusion of the real world and its crass values upon Harvard's sacred terrain, the University has lost its sense of purpose, and is now simply "a shattered place, a loose congeries of interests and values and ideologies, peopled by men and women who are ferociously defensive of their notions of the right way to make...
...supervise government operations in both Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. In Tanzania, 500 Cubans are reportedly training guerrillas to harass the Rhodesian government. In the Congo (Brazzaville), 150 others form a rear echelon for Angola; in Guinea-Bissau, says a grateful government spokesman, "they showed us how to make the terrain work for us and against the Portuguese...
Arnold Schoenberg once said "My works are not modern, just badly played." He was speaking of performers who, in a struggle to hack their way through a dense undergrowth of notes and rhythms, lose sight of the larger terrain...