Word: indochina
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HARVARD STUDENTS, like most Americans, have come to think of the Indochina War as a nightmare safely past, now that overt American combat there is ended. But American aid and munitions continue to pour into the coffers of Saigon dictatorship, just as the Nixon administration aids its political bedfellows in Chile, Greece, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Middle East. In any of these regions an increase of popular resistance to U.S.-supported oppression could cause the government to drag us into new counterrevolutionary intervention. This continual threat of war means that now, as with Dow Chemical...
...expressed some of my ambivalence as a hatred for Harvard, an institution I saw as a grim and sinister counterfeit of liberal values. Henry A. Kissinger '50 helped plan the policies which brought more long years of war to Indochina. There is no getting around it; the man should be tried as a war criminal in the name of every blind and dead little boy and girl in all of Vietnam and Cambodia. Harvard held Kissinger's chair in the Government Department open for him even as Indochina glowed with burning napalm fire; this University's values had retreated...
...vaguely. Some have been teachers and some students. I could not name all of them, but one man, Alexander B. Woodside, associate professor of History, serves as a good example. I hardly know Professor Woodside; I took his course on Vietnam and I asked him occasionally for explanations about Indochina developments. But his quiet dedication to his craft has impressed me, and those of us who have gained from him an increasing awe for Vietnam and its history are thankful. This University should belong to the people like Professor Woodside, and we are fortunate that they are around...
...against Democrat John P. Murtha Jr., 41, a boyish-looking car-wash operator in Johnstown, three-term representative in the Pennsylvania house and lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserve. The holder of two Purple Hearts awarded during volunteer service in Viet Nam in 1966-67, Murtha becomes the first Indochina veteran to win election to Congress...
...again--questions about the role universities and university professors play in society as a whole, and the freedom from responsibility and criticism they sometimes claim in the name of academic freedom. Like the work of government professors --Samuel P. Huntington, for instance--who theorized for the Army during the Indochina war, like the work of economists--some of those at Harvard's Development Advisory Service, for example--who advise dicatorships around the world on keeping their economies running, like the ROTC program President Bok would like to see return to Harvard, Curran's work is not solely academic. Its implementation...