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Robert E. Klitgaard '68, a special assistant to President Bok who deals with international affairs, cites the situation of the Pakistani revolution of 1970 as an instance where planning by American social scientists was blamed for causing disaster. In 1958 several professors, including David Bell, associate professor of Business Administration, began to serve as development advisors, drawing up a national plan for Pakistan. When, at the end of a bloody revolution 12 years later. Bangladesh seceded from West Pakistan. Pakistani intellectuals blamed the national plan, criticizing it for emphasizing progress at the expense of equal distribution of resources among...
...bomb and strafe the valley below. The fatalities included 40 adults and about 70 children-20 having died from the bombings and as many as 50 from the cold or hunger. Perhaps 1,200 refugees trekked for 27 days over seven high mountain ranges before reaching safety in a Pakistani refugee camp...
...walkie-talkie with instructions in English, supplied, claims a guerrilla radio operator, by the CIA; high-powered range finders for rocket launchers; and silencers for automatic pistols. Some costs are reportedly shouldered by an international consortium that includes the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, Western diplomats in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad believe that the U.S. Government has refused to provide heavy artillery in deference to Pakistan's wish that the fighting be limited...
...December of 1981, Harvard Medical School officials announced a program to help develop the Aga Kahn Hospital and Medical College, Pakistan's largest medical school and teaching hospital, in conjunction with Palestinian spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan '59. Since then, Harvard Medical School doctors have dispensed valuable advice to Pakistani faculty. But Harvard's growing cosmopolitanism may turn out to work both ways. As events of last spring indicate, endowments and gifts from foreign countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, could develop into an important source of funding for Harvard programs. With that possibility have come questions about the conditions that could...
Robert E. Klitgaard, '68, special assistant to President Bok who deals with international affairs, cites the situation of the Pakistani revolution of 1970 as an instance where planning by American social scientists was blamed for causing disaster. In 1958 several professors, including David Bell, associate professor of Business Administration, began to serve as development advisors, drawing up a national plan for Pakistan. When, at the end of a bloody revolution 12 years later, Bangladesh seconded from West Pakistan, Pakistani intellectuals blamed the national plan, criticizing it for emphasizing progress at the expense of equal distribution of resources among the eastern...