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...YEARS--except for one time, a crucial time because it couches the explanation George Vecsey gives for why this coal miner literally has a jar of moonshine in one hand and a copy of Das Kapital in the other. Vecsey had to get at this somehow, because Sizemore is no quintessential miner-mountaineer. Yet he is not freak show, either. How could this socialist grow out of these barren hills? It has something to do with being suddenly laid off for nine months during the fifties, having some time to think, and making a decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which...
...David Landau '72, writing in 1970 in The Crimson, said that "there were two unfailing characteristics which defined the work of [DAS] teams: 1) each client nation was headed by a non-Communist government which remained open and often friendly to American capital investment and 2) in each field project the overwhelming priority was to raise that nation's Gross National Project without as much thought or attention to the social effects of growth or the basic fairness of that country's political economic structure." Such arguments were typical of the articulate brand of criticism to which the DAS...
HIID now has a team stationed in Tanzania, advising that socialist government on drawing up a long-range plan for its industrialization. Michael Roemer, the former project director in Tanzania, says that during the 1970-71 demonstrations, the DAS "perhaps looked harder for projects in socialist countries than we had before." And the Tanzania project, which was first broached to Harvard in late 1970 at the height of anti-CFIA activity, is a blue chip in what another staffer calls a policy of "getting a politically-diversified portfolio of project countries--as they would be seen from Harvard," pursued...
HIID projects (and DAS ones previously) are all conducted by invitation of the host country and do not use U.S. government funding, except for research programs conducted in this country. The United Nations has supplanted the Ford Foundation as the leading supplier of money; together they provide more than 80 per cent. The University gives no direct support and charges for overhead expenses. But most HIID personnel have Harvard teaching appointments, and a prime purpose of the new organizational setup is to allow Harvard faculty more chance for constructive and broadening service abroad...
...policymakers in most of the countries in which they have served are capable enough themselves and thus not in need of much day-to-day advice. So team members find themselves participating more as scholars and researchers than as direct advisors. Also, the pressures of the protests against the DAS forced them to re-examine the ideological baggage behind their approach, they say. And this has produced advice that is more technical and specialized...