Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustration the New Left has turned to resistance. The most effective example of this is the burgeoning draft resistance movement. First people signed petitions saying that they would not fight, then they burned their draft cards, and finally said they would no longer communicate with the Selective Service System...
...refers bitterly to those who won't fight with him. "The ACLU copped out on me. James Hamilton, of their staff, assured me that they would provide for my defense, then he told me the executive committee had reservations. They finally said they would take my case only if I remained silent and didn't break the remained silent and didn't break the law all the while appeals were going on. I couldn't agree to do it though; the public must be educated during my trial, and I can't compromise my principles...
...United States has missed its opportunities to withdraw from Vietnam and now must stay and fight, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, said at Harvard yesterday afternoon...
...stopped several times and you should have gotten off," Lee told an audience of 125 at the Dunster House Forum. He cited 1954, 1956, and 1961 as times when the United States could have refused to fight in Vietnam. The killing of Diem, Lee said, was America's last chance for withdrawal, in his view a "far better" policy at that time...
Korea, writes Ridgway, "taught us that all warfare from this time forth must be limited. It could no longer be a question of whether to fight a limited war, but of how to avoid fighting any other kind." Yet he suggests that a major military test with Communism is still to come-offering no speculation on how or where. Viet Nam, in his view, is not the place. That war, he believes, represents an overdraft on American resources that is disproportionate to the national interest in that part of the world. He fears that the U.S. may find itself "unduly...