Word: vietnamã
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Moreover, assasinations, riots, and Vietnam??€™s refusal to end make the 1960s as dark and ominous as it was bright and jubilant. And Gitlin’s movement ultimately splintered, leaving a legacy of extremism, violence and the hedonism of the 1970s in its place...
Inevitably, U.S. military intervention abroad will draw comparisons to Vietnam??€”but it seems that the artistic reaction to this war remains far from the charged days of ’60s and ’70s, when artists stated often dogmatic opinions through the canvas and the microphone...
...Iraq. The New York protest coincided with dozens of others around the world in an international demand for peace. We commend the Harvard students who, despite the cold, took to the streets to voice their opinions. This demonstration—the largest since the war in Vietnam??€”signals the rebirth of a strong and vibrant new anti-war movement...
...defense analyst at the RAND Corporation in the 1960s, Ellsberg had helped to compile the extensive study, which revealed that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution—in which Congress permitted escalated U.S. military involvement in Vietnam??€”had been drafted months before the North Vietnamese attacked U.S. naval vessels in the gulf...
...July 27, sometime past 11 a.m., my sister Suzanne and I were cruising down an unnamed tributary of the Mekong River, about 80 miles south of Saigon. I was thankful the rickety raft’s single engine drowned out her voice: She kept complaining about Vietnam??€™s Third World status, evidenced, she thought, by its lack of Diet Coke. I got here by accepting a Let’s Go job backpacking through Borneo and the Philippines. My reward for completing the itinerary was an open-ended airline ticket. I came seeking to confirm my mother?...