Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of Air America's functions in Laos and Thailand have now been taken over by Continental Airlines, but Air America has stepped up its activities in Thailand, where it ferries supplies and ammunition to remote government outposts in the troublesome northeast. From Thailand, Air America also operates a...
Thich Nhat Hanh, director of the School of Social Studies at the Buddhist University of Saigon, called Friday night for a U.S. policy of reconstruction in and withdrawal from South Vietnam. The lecture, "Self-Determination in Vietnam," was held before a sympathetic audience in Dunster House.
When asked what the ideal U.S. policy would be, the Buddhist emphasized that he was not a politician, but was willing to present his opinions. The vast majority of the South Vietnamese want peace, and the U.S. and the South Vietnamese governments could turn this to their tactical advantage, Nhat...
* The Viet Cong can say, and with justification, that the South Vietnamese government is not really working for reconstruction and that the government is only "an extension of the U.S. government."
Nhat Hanh is director of the Youth Social Service Program which is sending young volunteers into the villages of South Vietnam in an effort to advance social reconstruction. He is also editor of a leading Buddhist weekly periodical.