Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marketeering and promotion gimmicks that typified the HPR in 1974-75 were a far cry from the student activism which spawned the Review in the late 60's. The first issues of the Review, beginning in April 1969, carried cover photographs of students demonstrating against the Vietnam War and against ROTC. The prevailing message of the magazine was anti-war, but a lot of space was also devoted to campus politics...
WHEN THE LAST Americans left Saigon last spring, Vietnam quickly faded from the public view. Newspapers moved on to other questions, radicals found other causes to fight for. Even the Vietnamese refugees who came here have dropped out of sight. Though movies like Hearts and Minds kept some sense of guilt alive and reinforced a determination to avoid repetitions of the war in Southeast Asia, very little attention has been paid to the task of reconstructing a country whose entire social and economic structure was destroyed by 30 years of war. On the whole, Americans seem to have written...
Nevertheless, the American departure last April was only the beginning of an enormous job for South Vietnam's Provisional Revolutionary Government. Aside from the million orphans and 181,000 physically disabled Vietnamese we left in our wake, the PRG had to cope with total social and economic chaos. Before the Americans arrived, at least 85 per cent of the South Vietnamese lived in rural areas. By 1970, more than 65 per cent of the population was concentrated in the cities as a result of the American government's forced draft urbanization program--a program which left the Vietnamese countryside defoliated...
...what the government is doing abroad. The Ford administration, like its predecessors, believes that the purpose of American foreign policy should be the defense of America's status as a great power. This requires the U.S. to defend American military and economic hegemony wherever it seems threatened, as in Vietnam and Angola...
...eight-month tenure at the U.N., Moynihan attempted through public pronouncements to reestablish the justifications for U.S. world hegemony in the face of the "humiliations" of Vietnam. Moynihan presents himself as the defender of an imperiled Western civilization and increasingly threatened individual human rights. Time and again, he has pointed to what he believes is the gradual swallowing up, since World War II, of liberal democratic regimes in a sea of totalitarian states welling up from the third world. He expressed his vision most starkly in a speech last October in San Francisco: "It is sensed in the world that...