Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Until the recent publicity, I had no idea the CIA was doing such an efficient job around the world. It is reassuring...
...Vietnam could somehow be made just. Opposing 2-S means that radicals should give up their deferments and agitate, during various anti-war struggles, to convince their fellow-students that the deferment is dead against their long term interest. Of course people won't be convinced of this idea right away. But the effort will help build the anti-war movement (the long-term need of most students and all workers) in two ways. First, workers will not take seriously anti-war students who favor 2-S, radicals who are trying to get off. At best they will...
...Multilateralism will appease those who see spoiled, stingy Europeans leaving the United States to care for the whole world. And help instead of money is a sure winner with Congressmen concerned about the balance of payments, interested in promoting domestic agriculture and fishing, or just plain grumbly about the idea of giving money away...
...accomplish, beyond satisfying my own need to make a gesture? I saw that I was really debating with myself and losing. "Well," I said, shamefaced, abashed at my own lack of resolution, "why don't we put it off, then?" "Putting it off," of course, meant dropping the whole idea. I backed out quickly and disappeared. In retrospect the memory is painful...
...identify only Ho Chi Minn and the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Few know why the French came and where or why they have gone. Some do not even know that Viet Nam has been divided into a North and South; others have heard of Saigon but have no idea where...