Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chilean refugee programs are struggling by comparison with programs for refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Parvey said. Those programs benefited from massive government involvement and publicity while the Chilean programs are "just being done from the heart" by a few Jewish and Christian congregations...
...joined by science workers in industry, and they allied themselves in turn with a group of MIT faculty and graduate students responsible for organizing the March 4, 1969 research stoppage at MIT in protest against defense research and the uses to which science and technology were being put in Vietnam...
...SftP member Michael Teel, formerly an instructor in a course called "Science and Society" at U-Mass at Amherst and presently a labor organizer there, also insists that it is the AAAS that has changed. There is a new consciousness beginning to take root, he says, the result of Vietnam, Watergate, and the persistent efforts of groups like the SftP...
...Later he started to mention how there was resistance by local authorities in some areas to implementation of the new technology, which is good because it uses less chemical fertilizers and more labor intensive techniques. I asked how it was going in the liberated areas--Vietnam. Cambodia--and he said that actually it was going well, but, that people were being required to give up their freedom in exchange. Again the meeting broke up in laughter...
...symptoms of that malaise--caused in large part by the ongoing war in Vietnam--was a feeling, Herrnstein says, that the future was unimportant. Academic studies and future careers were unimportant, he suggests. "It was harder to keep your mind on Ec 10 when you or someone you cared about was struggling to decide whether or not to run away to Canada to escape the draft...