Word: das
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...DAS first sent advisors to Indonesia at the request of the Soekarno Government in 1963. The advisors continued their work until early 1965 when the Ford Foundation, the financial sponsor, decided that it was becoming too difficult and dangerous to have foreigners live in Indonesia. This decision came after the houses of British citizens had been burned (one of the DAS advisors happened to be from the UK). President Soekarno called in the Ford Foundation representative and strongly urged that the Foundation's work, including the DAS project, continue. In fact, the project did continue throughout the rest...
From early 1965 to 1968 the DAS had no advisors in Indonesia. More than two years after the failure of the Communist attempt to seize power the first DAS advisor again arrived in Indonesia. The economists who were one of the influential groups in forming the Goverment's economic policies (groups of senior military officers are also influential) had asked the DAS for a small (4-5 economists) advisory group. Since the economists, unlike the Soekarno regime, were fully committed to economic development and a fight against inflation which had particularly affected landless laborers and the urban poor, the DAS...
First: The campaign against the Center has been based on falsehoods and half-truths about the Center's activities. The facts are readily available. From its formation on, an Annual Report of the Center has described in detail all research, the DAS activities, sources of financing, and all individuals associated with the Center. Briefly the facts are these...
...advisory services of the DAS are wholly independent of the U.S. government. The DAS provides its services only on invitation from a host country, and serves the interests of each client country as defined by its own political process. Advisory services have been financed mainly by the Ford Foundation, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the host countries. About half of the advisors are non-Americans. A University wide committee, which reviewed the DAS in 1968, concluded that the DAS was a "proper function for a university," and for Harvard in particular, and that the professional reputation...
Richard W. Bulliet, assistant professor of History, is the cousin of Robert Fassnacht, the graduate student killed in the August explosion at the University of Wisconsin. "The fact that I'm in 1737 Cambridge Street along with the DAS doesn't make me very happy. I intend to take the book I'm working on out of there as soon as possible. Last year there was a bomb threat in 1737 and everyone took it very casually. Next time, I'm running to the Square...