Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is indeed an element of bitter irony here. The immorality of American intervention in Vietnam would have the result of creating a similarly immoral position of complete isolationism. Selective commitments, presumably based on moral as well as strategic criteria, are out, Ravenal tells us. The either/or possibilities suggested by Ravenal remind one of those who opposed the Vietnam War because it seemed the United States couldn't win. Those who stood against the war on moral and not tactical grounds would do well to consider for themselves the moral consequences of this Neo-Isolationism. Ravenal foresees a world...
These feelings intensified during the mass strike and student riot that began in 1968. Scott says that every day, he received either subtle or overt peer pressure about the Vietnam War. During these years, he says, he was popular and adjusted in school--he was elected class president and spoke French without an accent; but gangs would scream epithets like "Yankee Murderer" or "Imperialist...
Mimi Le '79 was born in south Vietnam. She lived near the University of Chicago between ages two and nine, then returned to Saigon until last spring. Her parents are academicians. She was the only one in her Vietnamese school to take the SAT tests...
...expected in Florida--but will Moynihan's endorsement play in Rochester? More than one liberal Democrat is worried about Jackson's foreign policy--their line is that Scoop's the one to start World War III. Jackson still has some liabilities from his bald-eagle stance of the Vietnam years. And yesterday three labor leaders, including Victor Gottbaum in New York, former Bayh campaigners, came out for Udall...
Mariano left Vietnam for the last time in April, 1975, after a seven-year journalistic career there. He is now settled here with his wife and two Vietnamese children, adopted "before it was stylish to do so," and is working on a book to be entitled, "Oh, The Trouble I've Seen...