Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read and thought about the hundreds who did just that, we say that they were right, that they were heroes for running. The lesson was brought home by the fate of the thousands who, either out of ignorance or sense of patriotism, did go to fight in Southeast Asia. The ones who wrote home, as does one character in this fine novel: I seen some pretty awful things. I done some pretty awful things. I really can't talk about it. They come home to find that they aren't heroes at all--that America has already pushed them into...
...documented reports on torture and human rights abuses around the world, AI has cited Czechoslovakia as well as Chile, the Soviet Union as well as Iran. Much of the Nobel Prize money, said Chairman Thomas Ham-marberg, will go to build more local organizations in Third World countries in Asia and Latin America...
Last year more than 500 students marched in front of University Hall to protest Kissinger's arrival at Harvard to take part in a program on East Asia...
Sources within the Nieman Foundation reported yesterday that several fellows had declined invitations to hear Kissinger because of his alleged authorization of wiretaps on reporters, as well as his role in directing U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia...
...leave South Korea. First, although Carter has not been popular in the government or throughout the country for his decision to gradually withdraw all American ground troops from South Korea over a five-year period, the fact is that most Americans would not support another war in Asia. Nor should they. The United States has no business supporting a country so lacking in human rights and with the dictatorial regime South Korea has. President Park Chung Hee, who came to power in 1961 through a military coup, has changed the Korean constitution to assure him a lifetime of power...