"LONG SHADOWS IN DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION": A REACTIVE MEMOIR TO A VANISHING 'GREATEST AMERICAN' FRED W. RIGGS

Besides Professor Krishna K. Tummala who patiently listens to my concerns about development abroad and honestly critiques my writings, I wish to give special thanks to Utah State University's Mountain West Center for Regional Studies under the directorship of Elaine Thatcher and staff assistant Glenda Nesbit. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was hailed as an example of state enterprise which transformed a backward and poverty stricken region into one of prosperity and progress.\n Silly technical assistance undertakings in the 1 960 and 1 970 decades have become significant factors in contemporary human endeavor and progress. If we are to defeat Islamic radicals, we must supplement sound military strategy, good intelligence, vigorous law enforcement, and state-to-state diplomacy with what has . . . been the missing link.