Word: vietcong
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...same token, most of them have defended professors who advocate politically unpopular causes. The McCarthy era aside, one only has to look back to 1965 to remember the outcry that arose when Republican politicians called for the resignation of a Rutgers University professor who complimented the Vietcong in from of his students...
...Clive Jenkins, who was speaking, and smashing him and the rostrum and all the microphones down to the ground. No one was hurt, and the two men, later identified as members of the American Nazi Party (Arlington, Va.), were wrestled away by marshals as the Nazis yelled, "Commies, commies, Vietcong commies," into a microphone obligingly held by a radio station technician...
With a huge rush, 1000 demonstrators streaked across the North Parking Lot, where speeches were still going on. With three Vietcong flags in the lead, they raced up to a line of 20 soldiers and U.S. marshals and stopped. Then they strung themselves out over 300 yards, standing there jaw-to-jaw with the troops...
What was so different about the siege of the Pentagon? Here there was real resistance, a fierce kind of underdog, "guerillish" power kept the demonstrators going. Maybe they found out what it was like to be Vietcong. But more significantly, maybe they found out what it is like to be American in a country of a different kind of American. That is a hard thing. But inside, as one Harvard demonstrator said, "it makes you feel unbelievably clean." Said another: "Demonstrations will never be the same. We've turned the Pentagon upside down. Things will never be the same again...
...believe it is important to clarify two contentions which Professor Huntington makes about the prospects for a political victory in Vietnam, particularly since he is a specialist in political development. First, he sees hope for political victory in the growing urbanization of the South Vietnamese population--no peasants, no Vietcong, for the Communist program is as yet only geared to the countryside. But Professor Huntington does not say that this urbanization has taken place only because three million peasants have been driven off their land by intolerable bombing and shelling, or that this rapid urbanization has been sustained only because...