Word: americans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scandal has been expansive enough to leave room for all kinds of crusades. Senator Thomas Dodd even smuggled in a swipe at the Demon Weed. Must be that Vietnam marijuana, he sagely reasoned, that turned American soldiers, traditionally "well-mannered, loyal, kind to a fault," into maniacs. "Heaven knows," he went on, "we've seen the violence wrought by marijuana here at home." If you've seen photos of Lt. William R. Calley, awaiting trial for the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians, you can picture the type of salivating addict that Dodd is talking about...
...must avoid digressing into Dodd's Dope Determinist Theory of History. The more important point is that the Song My massacre provided a little something in the way of self-affirmation for everyone. It is proving that a 90 per cent consensus of the American people can still be mustered on a clear-cut political issue. I. c., the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of women, children, and old people is dishonorable. Even if they are Orientals. One is reminded of Pat Paulsen's presidential campaign...
...bases, to cut off their sources of food, ammunition, and sanctuary. These rural bases, it turns out. include most of the villages between the DMZ and the Mekong Delta. Since the inhabitants of these villages support the NLF-they continue to supply them and to withhold information from the Americans. at any rate-we come to the curious American tactic of "destroying a village in order to save it. "Those are the words of the Air Force colonel who supervised the destruction of Ben Thai (and the lives of most of its 12.000 inhabitants...
...small temptation, as you can see, to be diverted by tactical questions of the war. The fact that the Song My incident is far from unique should intensify, rather than obscure, our condemnation of any American presence in Vietnam...
...series of emergency meetings last April. the Faculty consistently chose floor resolutions on ROTC and Afro-American studies instead of more traditional positions supported by Ford and other administrators...