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 in all sectors of an underdeveloped society maintain the status quo despite 

 their professed devotion to modernization. 



Typically the young professional returns from his technological 

 studies abroad with an enthusiasm for and a competence in the sophisticated 

 type of investigation which is the genesis of technological growth. Out of 

 some sense of idealism, or as a normal expression of the male ego, he 

 seeks to implement these enthusiasms and make manifest these competencies 

 through a combination of research and teaching. But an adequate structural 

 resolution of the self-renewing and regenerative issues described above has 

 not been struck. The generation in power will be unsettled by these new 

 inputs without having access to the organizational forms by which such 

 very normal human preoccupations might be softened. It resorts to the 

 "national interest" value as a means of quieting its own fears of obsolescence. 

 The young professional swallows his chagrin and undertakes a project whose 

 quality and form meet the imposed criteria to the point where he senses, 

 perhaps correctly, that he is being used as low-cost backup support for 

 technical work of a mundane sort being carried on by some outside agency. 

 At this point, he must decide whether he should transfer his labors to the 

 outside agency where he will be more adequately compensated, compromise his 

 professional enthusiasms by seeking alternate employment, or migrate to an 

 advanced nation where his special competency is in demand. 



The working through of some such function may explain the relative 

 young age and heavy turnover to be found in any number of such bodies which 

 have had their normal growth stunted by other agencies using particularistic 

 interpretations of the "national interest" as their justification. Granted 

 the pressure of events and the shortage of talent, it is understandable that 

 these external agencies should wish to exploit the pools of competence that 



