Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always interesting to see what government officials say when they think the American people aren't listening. One good example is the recently-published racist remark of Earl Butz. Many others came out during the Vietnam War--for instance, presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy's 1965 statement that "the imperium must first and foremost go to war to support its imperial representatives. Such tautological reasoning lies at the foundation of the imperial role." (reprinted in The Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/71). What those in power say in private often contrasts sharply with the public image they would like to create...
Most Harvard students would probably agree that Kissinger has adopted many policies that are wrong or even immoral, particularly in Vietnam and Chile. But at first glance his "shuttle diplomacy" looks less evil. In Africa or the Mideast he moves from country to country in what the press describes as an effort to avoid bloodshed, a goal that certainly no one would criticize. The bulk of the press coverage of Kissinger's recent moves in Southern Africa gives the impression that a plan for a peaceful transition to majority rule has been endangered by unreasonable black militants. Many people...
...found myself getting terribly involved with getting an A-plus in motherhood. For several years, [during the war in Vietnam], my practice was limited to draft counseling in my kitchen," she said...
...splashed and we struggled. We were purified by the rains from heaven and defiled by Northeastern. On last year's injury jinx-- At present writing we're not a team that started thick to begin with. With all these injuries you'd have thought we'd been fighting the Vietnam war. On unfamiliarity--It might help running an unfamiliar course. When you don't know the course, you don't know when you're supposed to get tired...
Terrill's politics, too, might have been a factor in the decision, department members said this week. During the Vietnam War he wrote numerous articles expressing his opposition, and he has identified himself as clearly more sympathetic to the People's Republic of China than most of the Harvard faculty...