Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bombing civilians "is not national policy," Air Force Secretary Harold Brown said emphatically, "and it shouldn't be." But, the Pentagon said, "it is impossible to avoid all damage to civilian areas, especially when the North Vietnamese deliberately emplace" military targets in populated areas. U.S. planes sometimes have to jettison bombs willy-nilly in order to engage attacking MIG fighters. Moreover, some of Hanoi's own SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) have fallen back into populated areas...
...commotion, the Administration missed a chance to point out the contrast between the relatively small number of civilian casualties in the North and the deliberate war waged by the Viet Cong directly on civilians in the South-something that practically all the critics of the air war on the North conveniently ignore. During the past year alone, Viet Cong terrorists have methodically murdered more than 3,000 civilians in the South, kidnaped 10,000 others-village chiefs, technicians and teachers, and often their wives and children as well. In the past decade, they have slaughtered 30,000 civilians...
...comprehensible that his main concern in off-duty hours is aiding the Vietnamese civilian...
...give his question added impact, all 5,000 Saigon stevedores went out on strike. The G.I.s undertook only to offload the necessary military supplies, leaving dozens of ships with civilian goods and USAID cargoes stacking up in the river. To bring pressure on the Army negotiators, the Dock Workers Union summoned all 50,000 union members in all of Saigon's industries to a one-day general sympathy strike. But few responded, and at week's end the pressure was coming from the other side: Premier Ky applied some pressure of his own, asserting that "strikes...
...demonstrators were also protesting the widespread death and destruction to civilian populations in North and South Vietnam, and the injury to children by napalm bombing...