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...despite its claim that it was essentially apolitical, that it did notconsistently support American goals, the DAS operated within the ever-expanding framework of American capital and aid. While seeking to act in the best interest of their host governments-often advising many of them to beware lopsided agreements with American traders and agencies-the DAS teams continued to tolerate the principle of exploitative American investment and the permissibility of American intervention. To take one striking example, as rendered by Lester E. Gordon,. the present director of the DAS, "We concluded early in the game that Liberia's decision...
...then dean of the School of Public Administration, had wanted the Fellows Program to become part of that school, but Bowie insisted that such a non-degree-granting program would be best off with an identity and a physical quarters of its own. It was within the framework of the Fellows' Program that the Center took shape...
...when John Glenn and I were young." says Allen Brown, a Cincinnati lawyer. "The flag then was still the flag of the dream. It's hard for us to understand kids who have only a book idea of the flag. They didn't see men die within the framework of that idealism of World War II. It's as if people see the flag the way Moses saw the golden calf. Half our population remembers it as a blessing, and the other half, who have grown up since World War II, see it only as a golden calf. If only...
...victory, Prime Minister Edward Heath formed a government with great dispatch. Between a party for his campaign workers and a speech to civil servants about his plans for streamlining the governmental system, Heath presided over a 50-minute Cabinet meeting and pondered the legislative priorities that would become the framework of the Queen's speech at the opening of Parliament this week. Then, at the helm of his sloop Morning Cloud, he competed in a 60-mile race around the Isle of Wight...
...disciplined. Ethical laissez-faire would widen for the oppressed the options of limited violence. The state would fulfill the need for a sphere of nonviolence. But if the sovereignty of the state is limited too sharply, if all political groups can move out of the existing politico-legal framework, then the state will lack the power to intervene on behalf of the oppressed. The civil rights progress since 1957 has come through purposeful state coercion. While letting group pluralism run amok, Walzer should have affirmed the duties of power-the responsibility of the state to preserve itself and the nation...