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...same time, other Harvard studentsparticipate in a five-day strike in protest of theVietnam...
President Clinton, who has been severely criticized for avoiding service in theVietnam War, plans to go down in the history books as the U.S. President who restored full diplomatic ties to Hanoi. Today, concluding an angry debate among the President's aides, Clinton's national security advisers drafted a formal order that he is expected to sign next week -- just soon enough,TIME's Dean Fischerreports, for Secretary of State Warren Christopher to make a landmark visit to the Vietnamese capital after an Asian economic conference at the end of the month. "Given the President's own opposition...
Baldwin attended Harvard during the late 1960s,a time when student demonstrations against theVietnam War rocked the University. He stronglydefends former president Nathan M. Pusey '28, whowas criticized by many students at the time forhis handling of campus protests...
Another alumus, a vociferous opponent of theVietnam conflict, said the war "is kind ofAmerica's penalty for the three or four millionVietnamese dead that the liars in the Americangovernment killed...
Unlike the anti-war movement during theVietnam War, protests today galvanize around morespecific issues that affect a smaller percentageof the student body...