Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieving DOD aims, perpetuates a loathsome Congressional discrimination against social-scientist-controlled funding sources, and puts many researchers. especially those interested in foreign areas, in a "conflict of interest" situation. On the other hand. I agreed with the views of Professor Deutsch, noted in the article, that reality assessments using expensive, "hard" techniques may help reduce Pentagon tension-related. idealogically based distortion tendencies, which have sometimes helped cause disastrous wars of miscalculation. And I have been trying, with the expectation of at best modest success, to get students in my courses to use Cambridge Project monies to develop and use...
Others involved in the wrangle over the war vote have offered a different interpretation of the incident. When told of Doty's letter, the sponsor of the Vietnam resolution-Mark Ptashne, lecturer in Biochemistry-said that the use of Doty's name seemed to be part of a "concerted effort by some members of the conservative caucus to make some arrangements that will keep the resolution off the floor...
Some of the resolution's sponsors, however, have complained that Dorfman's tactics have been high-pressure or even deceptive. As an example, they cite the use of Doty's name on Dorfman's committee...
Dorfman denied last night that he had intended any deception in the use of Doty's name. Another one of the committee members had called Doty and reported that he wanted to be a member, he said...
...terms of debate. Rather than pursuing their intuitive sense that PL was dead wrong about the dynamics of American politics, and creating a revolutionary vision that comprehended the complexity and uniqueness of American life, the leaders of SDS tried to find an analysis that they could use in maintaining control of the organization and preventing the conversion of the rank and file to PL politics...