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...small but powerful sector of academics, including former Harvard professors Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brezinski, provide the intellectual justification for increased militarism. Many of these individuals are East European emigres who harbor particularly strong antagonistic feelings toward the Soviet Union...
...president has vowed to recharge the nation's engines of productivity by bolstering private-sector research and development. But by putting the corporate scientists' academic counterparts out of business, Reagan will eliminate a needed source of basic investigation and innovation. Furthermore, he has focused many of his most severe cuts on the "non-essential" social sciences in a move many educators have labeled purely political and restrictive of academic freedom. By reducing support for research in areas such as abortion and family mental health, educators say, Reagan hopes to see programs he considers taboo or not justifying government involvement swept...
...these words, spoken before the standing committee of China's National People's Congress Feb. 28, Vice Premier Yao Yilin described a watershed decision by the country's economic planners. Specifically, Yao announced a drastic 13% cutback of the 1981 budget; capital construction, the hardest-hit sector, would be chopped almost in half. Peking, it appeared, was scrapping much of the philosophy behind the ambitious Four Modernizations* development campaign launched with great fanfare three years...
...alternative to the two political extremes that have historically disrupted Central American politics. United States involvement, and especially the efforts of Robert White, subsequently led to a land redistribution program that divided the holdings of some 300 powerful landowners for the benefit of 60,000 farm families, while private sector interests received continued encouragement from the government. When the administration resumed aid to the military-civilian junta several weeks ago it was more out of a fear that the left's "final offensive" would destroy this delicate ideological balance than the calculated genocide you alluded to in your editorial...
Government claims that private corporations can undertake high level research at a lower cost than universities are misleading, Jones added, saying. "The private sector is not the bad guy: it just does not have the patience to search for novel new phenomena, and it does not undertake the responsibility of training the next generation of thinkers...