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Article: Opportunities `being lost': Lack of political will stands in way of aid to developing world.(World)(Regional Briefing)(Global Issues)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 20, 1997
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Charles Williams Maynes is retiring as editor of Foreign Policy, the magazine published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Its editor since 1980, he delivered a farewell address in Washington to a closing session Jan. 15 of the International Development Conference, which is attended annually by more than 1,000 analysts, diplomats, businessmen and politicians involved with development work in the Third World. The following are excerpts from his address, which sets out his view of the world in the years ahead:
We are in one of the most plastic periods in modern history. It is rare in history for all of the great powers to be essentially at peace ...