Please excuse the little screed about "imperialism." To oppose the CFIA, it is first necessary to reject even the possibility of a successful development, measured in terms of the people of a country, by American investment. It is possible, I will admit, that after continuous massive doses of foreign aid, as in Formosa, an underdeveloped country can experience an increase in per capita income.

The main effect of the 50 DAS advisers, however, is to increase and expand markets. Those "markets" benefit American business. The DAS helps to stabilize and consolidate those economies. Whether the purpose is to aid American investment or to establish market economies makes little difference.

WHEN ASKED about DAS participation in reactionary governments, Vernon responded proudly that the DAS left after the military coup in Greece. The story runs that the DAS had been working with Papandreau, and after the junta's coup, the DAS was forced to leave, Even then, however, they remained for a year, and left only after considerable argument inside the Center. It seems there was a lot of the "keep the flag there" philosophy.

We might as well destroy two other myths at the same time. The first is about Pakistan. Just after the Center issued its Tenth Annual Report in 1968, in which they praised the "progress of the economic policy and performance" of the Pakistani government, that government was overthrown after days of bloody rioting in major cities. The new rulers were from the same class, but plainly some one was unhappy.

The other myth concerns the "freeatmosphere for discussion" that the Center finds as its main product. Of well over 100 professional personnel, Bowie was able to point only to one or two who were "radical." Even those two, it turns out, were hired by the University and not by the Center. When the Center began funding their projects, it was unaware of the political ideas of the two applicants.

It was just at the time, in fact, that we began discussing the Fellows program, that Bowie's secretary softly opened the door and announced that it was noon.

"We'll stay as long as he needs," Bowie said.

Nye, however, laid it on the line. "We'll give you all the time you need, provided that we get a fair story."

So that was it. Always before, I had been proud to interview professors for news stories. I had thought that the two of us, the professor and I, were comrades in our relentless search for Truth. I would ask off-center questions, and he would respond with interesting and new answers. Maybe that was why I liked talking to professors on the phone for a story when no one else did. We both considered journalism as a way of mutual indulgence in a creative function.

Or at the very least, some unusually wise and aged professor would consider me with benevolence, and smile at my naivete and idealism. For a few moments we would be mentor and student, emerging from some long-lost tradition.

But at the CFIA, for the first time. I was an object. Spending time with me was an investment. They had learned to maximize profits, and a pleasant chat with a foolish undergraduate would be well-spent. "We'll give you all the time you need, provided that we get a fair story." I wonder if that's the way the DAS works.

I will get it all off my chest at once. When a reporter sits down with an Important Person for an interview, he considers it his right, indeed his duty, to get at least part of The Inside Story. He needn't have it all. Just a little that he can spring on his readers in the middle of his story to assure them that he knows what he's doing. Most bad stories come not from bad writing, but from bad questioning.

So if after an hour and a half with three of the most influential men in Development and International Relations. I knew not one whit more than I did when I started. I was not prepared to believe that it was my fault. They would not concede me my "pay" as a reporter. Since I was to come away with nothing more than a University News Office press release, then they would learn to communicate a little with the next reporter. I decided.

IT'S 5:30 in the morning and really should talk a little about the Fellows program. Since both of us are tired, the plan will be as follows: a quick look at the Fellows of the Center, an unguided tour of 6 Divinity Ave, to get us from the Fellows on the first floor to the library on the third, and finally some of the best quotations from books published by the Center. That way we will have examined all three of the Center's activities. There will be no other digressions. I promise.

The twelve year total of Fellows at the Center comes to 164 individuals from 29 countries. The Center claims that they are there to reflect upon long-term problems, and opportunity they never have at home. The Center sponsors weekly seminars and urges constant intercourse between the Fellows from different areas.