Word: vietcong
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THIS WAS the year that students brought the war back home to the campus. In a swirling mass of identities, we became Vietcong and then blacks and then students again. And it happened all over--not just at Berkeley and Harvard, but at Ohio University and the University of Hawaii. Suddenly, students became activists. They did things. They took over buildings and held deans captive; they shut down universities and they bled...
...night before April Fool's Day, the President of the United States said that he had just about had enough. He said that he would not run for President again and he said that he would try to make peace in Vietnam. Whatever pushed him to that decision--the Vietcong or the anti-war people or a bad heart--it was over. And in Cambridge they snake-danced in the streets...
...March 31 President Johnson disclosed a restriction of the bombing raids inside North Vietnam, withdrew from the 1968 Presidential campaign, and hinted that the Vietcong could expect to obtain a share of the ruling power in postwar South Vietnam. Johnson's simultaneous announcement of the three decisions in one nationally broadecasted speech was the first indication to date that the American government had finally resolved to take the diplomatic--rather than punitive--route out of the mess in Vietnam. Undoubtedly the President realized that he had insufficient popular backing to continue the counter-productive escalation of the war. Since escalation...
Both Washington and Hanoi not to mention the Vietcong, the Saigon regime, Peking, and Moscow--are fully aware that issues of real strategic and political importance will have to be resolved before the decades-old Indochina confilict can finally be considered ended...
...already called on the Vietcong to stop accepting aid from the Russian "revisionists." It must be clear to them that the NLF and North Vietnam have been "co-opted" by the revisionists. Russian aid flows to Vietnam in an ever-increasing river, and Russian advisers and technicians control key posts in Vietnamese industry and military administration...