Word: das
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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According to that correspondence which has allegedly been censored out of my account, the DAS left Greece, not for reasons of political idealism, but rather for more hard-headed considerations. From the DAS' letter to the Greek government, dated January 1968, nine months after the takeover...
...DAS field project in Greece had begun only in late 1966 (under a government which received large amounts of American aid and investment) and had never got properly launched by the time of the coup the following April. So there was the DAS in Greece, sitting on its hands in an Athens office. There were two reasons, according to DAS officials, for which their representative was told to wait it out: 1) until the abortive counter-coup by Constantine in December 1967, it was thought (and hoped) that the military government would be toppled; and 2) many of the economists...
...there were others in the DAS who did not feel as complacent about the agency's actions. One such person was Alfred Conrad, who taught at the Harvard Business School and served for five years as an overseas economic consultant in the DAS. Conrad now holds an economics chair at the City University of New York...
Questioning the ability of a small DAS field team to deter the Greek regime from carrying out a few arrests, Conrad said last month, "I never understood the logic of that and I don't still. At the time, I didn't like the idea of Harvard showing either the Crimson or any other flag [in Greece...
...role of the DAS in Greece is, to me, unclear. The limited involvement there is insignificant and not typical of the DAS' larger and more meaningful projects. For these reasons, I decided that an analysis of the Greek episode would have added nothing to my article except length...