Word: indochina
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What, then, would be the consequence of bringing Harvard ROTC back to life? Is ROTC any less objectionable now that U.S. military interference in Indochina has officially ended...
Other sponsors of the new group include writers, professors and union leaders who disapproved of George Meany's support of the Indochina war and "neutrality" in the 1972 Presidential election...
WHEN ROTC WAS last an issue at Harvard, the Class of 1977 was busily finishing eighth grade, no doubt reluctantly putting aside Batman comic books for the rigors of algebra and civics. Also in 1969, the Indochina War entered Year V of massive American involvement; 500,000 GIs roamed the Vietnamese countryside, spreading waste and devastation, while American warplanes pulverized much of the rest of Indochina...
...friends in Europe and Japan. The Middle East is probably the most dangerous spot. I still hope that we can find a basis for negotiations between the parties there. I intend to make a major effort to reinvigorate Latin American policy. We will work to maintain the settlement in Indochina within the limits now prescribed by Congress. It is the first time since the war that we have had a world that is at peace. We will be judged by whether or not we can make this the natural state of things...
...conversation would not have been impossible at a Harvard demonstration. But it might have been less likely, just as there were probably fewer people at Harvard than in many other places who denounced demonstrators for their violence when they broke windows in an attempt to stop the presumably nonviolent Indochina...