Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign policy tragic. Viet Nam defied a political solution as he understood the term. "I think he wrongly thought that the same assumptions prevailed there that prevailed here," says Moyers. "He'd say, 'My God, I've offered Ho Chi Minh $100 million to build a Mekong Valley. If that'd been George Meany he'd have snapped...
...have to go to the Mekong Delta to find signs of what Harvard isn't doing quite right because you can find them as close as the course catalogue or in Brookline. Walk down Dunster St. and take a look at the building at #77, the home of the Afro-American Studies Department. Born of what the dean later called an "academic Munich"--at a time when students sat in University Hall and demanded that ROTC be thrown off campus and didn't leave until the president called in the Cambridge police, who beat heads and spilled blood...
...first signed up for a two-year hitch in 1968, fought in Viet Nam and then returned home to Batavia, N.Y., and a job as a lathe operator. The work paid well - much better than the Army - but Cerce began yearning for the military life. "The days on the Mekong came back, running patrols and not wondering what in hell you're doing with your life," he recalls. After talking it over with his wife LaVonne, Cerce re-enlisted and knew immediately he had made the right decision...