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8
. Taylor,
Dollars & Sense
, Nov. 1991.

9
. Steven Elliott-Gower, Assistant Director, Center for East-West Trade Policy, U.of Georgia,
NYT News Service
, Dec., 23, 1991. Jeffrey Smith,
WP
weekly, May 18-24; Korb,
CSM
, Jan. 30; Schweid,
BG
, Feb. 15, 1992. Hartung,
World Policy
Journal
, Spring 1992. The ambitious plans were not realized, the Congressional Research Service reported in July 1992, with sales declining in 1991 though the US still accounted for 57 percent of all arms sales to the Third World; Robert Pear,
NYT
, July 21, 1992.

10
. On Food for Peace, see
NI
, 363, and sources cited, particularly Borden,
Pacific Alliance
. Hogan,
Marshall Plan
, 42-3, 45. Commerce Department analysis, Wachtel,
Money Mandarins
, 44f.
BW
, April 7, 1975.

11
. Nasar,
NYT
, Feb. 7; “Furor on Memo at World Bank,”
NYT
, Feb. 7; Reuters and Peter Gosselin,
BG
, Feb. 7, 1992.
Economist
, Feb. 8, Feb. 15 (Summers's letter), 1992.

12
. MacEwan,
Dollars & Sense
, Nov. 1991. Hegel,
Philosophy
, 36.

13
. “Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill”; Anita Diamant,
BG
, Sept. 10, 1992. Falco, and other articles,
Daedalus
, “Political Pharmacology,” Summer 1992. James McGregor,
WSJ
, Sept. 29,1992; this front-page story on Burmese opium in China manages to avoid entirely the major CIA role in creating the curse; see McCoy,
Politics
. Victoria Benning,
BG
, June 27, 1992.

14
. Paul Hemp,
BG
, Aug. 30, 1992.

15
. Louis Ferleger and Jay Mandle,
Challenge
, July/Aug. 1991. US tax rate is 95 percent of Japan's and 71 percent of Western Europe's, according to figures cited by economist Herbert Stein, criticizing the “myth” that US taxes are high by international or historical standards;
WP Weekly
, Sept. 7, 1992.

16
. Sonia Nazario,
WSJ
, Oct. 5, 1992. Wachtel,
op. cit
.,”Afterword”; John Zysman, “US power, trade and technology,”
International Affairs
(London), Jan. 1991. Benjamin Friedman,
NYRB
, Aug. 13;
CSM,
Aug. 14;
Science
, Aug. 21; Pollin,
Guardian
(NY), August 1992.

17
. Uchitelle,
NYT
, A1, Aug. 12, 1992.

18
. Michael Waldholz and Hilary Stout, “Rights to Life,”
WSJ
, April 7; Leslie Roberts,
Science
, May 29, 1992.
The Blue Sheet
, April 8, 15, 1992.

19
. Gina Kolata,
NYT
, July 28, 1992.

20
.
Economist
, Aug. 22, 1992. Richard Knox,
BG
, Sept. 11, 1992, study by Families USA Foundation; drug manufacturers conceded its accuracy. Fazlur Rahman,
NYT
, April 26; William Stevens,
NYT
, May 24, 1992.

21
. Watkins,
Fixing
, 94-5.

22
. “Intellectual Property Rights,”
Anthropology Today
(UK), Aug. 1990.

23
. Jeremy Seabrook,
Race & Class
, July 1992. Watkins,
Fixing
, 96.

24
. David Hirst,
Guardian
(London), March 23, 1992.

Notes to Chapter 5

1
. Thomas Friedman,
NYT
, Jan. 12, 1992; see p. 183. Taylor,
Swords
, 159. Pfaff and Hoopes, virtually identical commentary with no cross-reference, so it is unclear who should receive the credit; see
AWWA
, 297-300,
FRS
, 94-5. Wohlstetter,
WSJ
, Aug. 25, 1992. Hegel,
Philosophy
, 96.

2
. Schoultz,
Comparative Politics
, Jan. 1981. Herman, in
PEHR
, I, ch. 2.1.1;
Real Terror Network,
126ff.
PEHR
,
MC
, for comparative analysis. And a huge literature on case studies.

3
. See
TNCW
, 73f., for further discussion. Also
NI
,
DD
, among others.

4
. Leffler,
Preponderance
, 260, 165. See ch. 10.4, and for the background, ch. 2.1-2. On Japan-SEA, see
RC
, ch. 2.1. Below, unless otherwise indicated, see Peter Dale Scott, “Exporting Military-Economic Development,” in Caldwell,
Ten Years
, and “The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno,”
Pacific Affairs
, Summer 1985;
PEHR
. vol. I, ch. 4.1; Kolko,
Confronting
.

5
.
FTR
, 457ff.;
COT
, ch. 8. Marshall, et al.,
Iran-Contra
, chs. 7, 8.

6
. McGehee,
Nation
, April 11, 1981. Also
News From Asia Watch
, June 21, 1990.

7
.
Ibid
. Rusk cited by Kolko.

8
. Brands, “The Limits of Manipulation: How the United States Didn't Topple Sukarno,”
J. of American History
, Dec. 1989.

9
. Johnson cited by Kolko,
Confronting
. McNamara and congressional report cited in Wolpin,
Military Aid
, 8, 128. McNamara to Johnson, Brands,
op. cit
. Ch. 7.3.

10
.
Public Papers of the Presidents
, 1966 (Washington, 1987), Book II, 563.

11
.
NYT
, March 29, 1973. See ch. 10, n. 64.

12
. Frankel,
NYT
, Oct. 11, 1965.

13
. Quoted in
NYT
, Oct. 17, 1965.

14
. Robert Martin,
U.S. News
, June 6, 1966.
Time
, July 15, 1966.

15
.
NYT
, June 19, 1966.

16
. Editorials,
NYT
, Dec. 22, 1965; Feb. 17, Aug. 25, Sept 29, 1966.

17
.
IHT
, Dec. 5, 1977, from
LAT
.

18
.
PEHR
. I, ch. 3.4.4;
TNCW
; ch. 13; Peck,
Chomsky Reader
, 303-13. For an overview, Taylor,
Indonesia's Forgotten War
.

19
. John Murray Brown,
CSM
, Feb. 6, 1987; Shenon,
NYT
, Sept. 3, 1992;
Economist
, Aug. 15, 1987.

20
. Wain,
WSJ
, April 25, 1989;
Asia Week
, Feb. 24, 1989, cited in
TAPOL Bulletin
, April 1989. Richard Borsuk,
WSJ
, June 8, 1992.

21
. Kadane,
SFE
, May 20, 1990.
WP
, May 21;
AP
, May 21;
Guardian
(London), May 22;
BG
, May 23, 1990. One exception to the general dismissal was the
New Yorker
, “Talk of the Town,” July 2, 1990. Guatemala, ch. 7.7.

22
. Wines,
NYT
, July 12; Martens, letter,
WP
, June 2, 1990.

23
. Budiarjo, letters,
WP
, June 13; Rosenfeld,
WP
, July 13, July 20, 1990.

24
. Moynihan,
NYRB
, June 28, 1990.

25
. See
TNCW
; ch.13. Lewis,
NYT,
April 16, 1992.

26
. Shawcross, see
MC
, 284f.; for more detail, Peck,
op. cit
. Chaliand,
Nouvelles
littéraires
, Nov. 10, 1981; Fallows,
Atlantic Monthly
, Feb., June 1982. Halliday,
Guardian Weekly
, Aug. 16, 1992.

27
.
Dally Hansard
SENATE (Australia),1 November,1989, 2707.
Indonesia News
Service
, Nov. 1, 1990. Green left mideast.gulf.346, electronic communication, Feb. 18, 1991.
Monthly Record
, Parliament (Australia), March 1991. Reuters, Canberra, Feb.24; Communiqué, International Court of Justice, Feb. 22, 1991.
PEHR
, I, 163-6. Taylor,
Indonesia's Forgotten War
, 171.

28
.
FEER
, 25 July, 1991. Carey, letter,
Guardian Weekly
, July 12, 1992.

29
. ABC (Australia) radio, “Background briefing; East Timor,” Feb. 17, 1991; Osborne,
Indonesia's Secret Wars
; Monbiot,
Poisoned Arrows
; Anti-Slavery Society,
West Papua
.

30
.
Age
(Australia), Jan. 11, Feb. 18; IPS, Kupang, Jan. 20;
Australian
, July 6; Carey,
op. cit
.;
The Engineer
, March 26, 1992. See also
TAPOL Bulletin
, Aug. 1992.

Notes to Chapter 6

1
. Jennings, “The Indians' Revolution”; Berlin, “The revolution in black life”; both in Young,
American Revolution
. Morris,
American Revolution
, 72. Higginbotham,
In the Matter of Color
. Hamilton, cited by Vine Deloria, in Lobel,
Less than Perfect
. See references of n. 32, ch. 1.

2
. Gleijeses, “The Limits of Sympathy: the United States and the Independence of Spanish America,” ms., Johns Hopkins, 1991.

3
. Lawrence Kaplan,
Diplomatic History
, Summer 1992; see ch. 1.2.

4
. See Bernal,
Black Athena
.

5
.
North American Review
, April 12, 1821, cited by Gleijeses. Crossette,
NYT
, Jan. 18; Stephen Fidler,
FT
, Jan. 29, 1992.

6
. Jefferson cited by van Alstyne,
Rising American Empire
, 81.

7
. Gleijeses, “Limits of Sympathy.” Drinnon,
White Savage
, 158. Also
PI
, 12f., 71f., and sources cited.

8
.
Ibid
.

9
. Green,
Containment
, 13-18. On the Good Neighbor Policy and its backgrounds, see LaFeber,
Inevitable Revolutions
; Krenn,
US Policy
. See also Salisbury,
Anti-Imperialism
.

10
. Benjamin,
US and Origins
, 186ff. Paterson, in Paterson,
Kennedy's Quest
; Mexican diplomat quoted in Leacock,
Requiem
, 33.

11
.
NI
, 177, 101. Shirley Christian,
NYT
, Sept. 4, 1992.

12
. “Patriotic America,” 1903; Zwick,
Mark Twain's Weapons
, 161.

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