Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black v. White in Viet Nam...
...your article "Black Power in Viet Nam" [Sept. 19], you say that many of the blacks in Viet Nam regard the war as "white man's folly." This is not a white man's war; it is a no man's war. There should be no Americans, black, white or otherwise, in Viet Nam. The brown Vietnamese should fight for themselves...
...After just reading your article on Black Power in Viet Nam, I feel kind of sick. I've always been sympathetic to the Negro's search for equal rights, but I think things are getting out of hand...
...right by keeping that subsidy at $1,600 for a family of four, far below the poverty line, and insisting that recipients accept "suitable" employment or vocational training. He suggested tax reforms, but would prefer to maintain the oil-depletion allowance. He began calling home troops from Viet Nam, yet keeps the level of withdrawal so small that the actual U.S. military presence there is substantially unaffected...
President Nixon's eight-month period of relative immunity from criticism on the Viet Nam war was over. The opponents of the war came out spoiling for a fight. A freshman Republican Senator, New York's conservative-turned-liberal, Charles Goodell, even had the temerity to introduce legislation asking the Congress to take the unheard-of step of cutting off all funds for U.S. participation in the war as of December 1, 1970. Of course, there is virtually no chance for his measure to become...