Word: indochina
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...movement was ultimately a failure. Even after it reached immense proportions, it failed to end the war for years; more bombs were dropped after the emergence of the New Left than during any war in history. And worse, though the national mood on a single issue--the war in Indochina--changed, and changed abruptly, the country's heart and soul were not moved. Or they were not moved enough. The proof is in El Salvador, and Guatemala, and Honduras...
...proved that our immorality in Latin America can stir the indignation of the U.S. public. On May 3, 1981, 100,000 Americans rallied outside the Pentagon to protest our involvement in El Salvador; it took years before one-tenth that number bothered to cry out against the war in Indochina. The combination of fairly aggressive media coverage, the involvement of the Catholic church, and the degeneracy of the Salvadoran status quo was enough to focus attention for a few months on the nation, and enough to check our government's action to some extent. But it was a very...
...BOSTON PHOENIX celebrates its 15th anniversary this week with a fat issue full of excerpts from the more than 800 papers it has published. "The Vietnam Era" reads the heading on the news-in-review section, and the pages that follow reflect more than anything on the war in Indochina and in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is no accident that Vietnam--not " the '60s" or "the counterculture" or anything else--gets top billing; it was this war and the response to it that gave birth to the phoenix and virtually every other underground newspaper...
...Stephen Mindich, writing another Phoenix review of Hair, had this to say: "We are still at war in Indochina and may even be moving toward war at home. The insanity of both is mind-boggling and no matter what Hair says specifically, at its core it is saying loud and clear: let warmth, love and peace among all men prevail. Instead of darkness, let the sun shine in." In November 1981, not a decade later, Mindich, now "publisher and president," talks about his rag. No, about his newspaper. "Many of our alumni today enjoy key positions with distinguished media outlets...
NAPALM IS ONE of those things that has very few defenders; it may have turned more Americans against the war in Vietnam than anything else, this burning jelly that did in people. Somehow it's appropriate that the University that brought you Indochina also produced the most controversial weapon of the war, albiet 20 years ealier. In a shallow lake on Soldiers Field, dug by Buildings and Grounds workers, Louis Feiser, professor of Chemistry, developed the stuff, tested it mid great flashes, and probably crowed with satisfaction when at worked...