Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peretz was an active protestor of the Vietnam War at a very early period, when, he recalls, he heard that President Kennedy was sending 15,000 troops to Vietnam. He sees a similarity between his involvement then and his strong pro-Israel commitment now. He says that on the "scale of history," his ideological preoccupation with the Middle East will prove to be justified. "I don't want to hide how important I think the Middle East situation is both for America and people of conscience," he says...
...said leaders of American foreign policy like Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50, had feelings of "bitterness and resentment" toward Vietnam, resulting in an attempted "policy of balkanization" in Indochina...
Balkanization, Trong said, tries to disrupt the unity of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by aggravating border disputes and infiltrating those countries with Thai agents...
...policy of hostility, balkanization and internal problems remaining from the Thieu regime have led Vietnam to move faster toward reunification," he said...
...about the "barbarians'" disregard for scientific inquiry and decency, but the strikers retorted that these worthy considerations had long ago become nostrums having little to do with the rhythm and structure of anyone's life at Harvard, to say nothing of life--and death--in our cities or in Vietnam, and that in any case it was not the professors' blood which Buildings and Grounds was cleaning off the steps of University Hall...