Word: antiwar
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...policy just because I disagreed with it? My main responsibility and my principal interest was Western Europe." Yet Ball was the No. 2 man in the State Department. If he and others in powerful positions had made a public issue over their opposition, Franck and Weisband contend, the antiwar movement might not have had to take its case into the streets...
...According to ex-antiwar activist Rennie Davis. Who makes "the vision of May Day, or workers no longer needing to serve a capitalist society...a very, very, very practical reality...
Woodside divided the course into three sections: pre-colonial Vietnam, the French colonial period, and then, the war. He found that his students, most of whom were drawn to the course out of antiwar sentiments, were receptive to his efforts to teach the war's cultural context. "My only regret is that so little of Vietnamese culture has been translated into English," Woodside says. "That makes it very hard to get the Vietnamese experience across...
...Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University, began to argue that the U.S. war effort in Vietnam was illegal soon after American troops entered combat in Indochina in large numbers. As the war dragged on through the sixties. Falk became increasingly active in the antiwar movement, and came to argue that the standards of justice applied against Nazis at Nurenberg made high U.S. officials liable for a variety of crimes against peace and humanity. But he resisted the idea that government leaders should actually come to trial. Only in 1969 did Falk become seriously troubled...
...Cambridge-based academics who participated in the antiwar movement in the '60s and '70s agree that the United States engaged in criminal activities in Indochina and that the war crimes issue remains a significant one, but differ drastically on the lessons to be drawn from American involvement in Indochina. Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at MIT, says that if there were war crimes trials, they should focus primarily on the question of U.S. aggression against Vietnam and Cambodia. It would be naive to concentrate on the brutality of the U.S. war effort, Chomsky said in an interview last week, since...