Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While much of the work of this committee was cloaked in secrecy, there is strong evidence of its repugnant nature. At the May 1969 meeting, for example, Huntington presented a paper entitled "Getting Ready for Political Competition in Vietnam." In this document, he advocated electoral manipulation, control of the media and "inducements and coercions...
...against Indochina ranks as one of this century's most horrible atrocities. More explosive power was rained upon the Vietnamese countryside than was used in all of World War II; anti-personnel weapons were designed solely for their ability to maim; carcinogenic, fetus-deforming chemical defoliants blanketed half of Vietnam's arable land...
This semester, Samuel P. Huntington, one of the principal apologists and theorists for the vicious air war against the villages of Vietnam is returning to the Government Department. An ad hoc committee of students has been formed by the Spartacus Youth League to protest Huntington's return to Harvard. We urge all students, faculty members and campus workers to join...
That an unabashed apologist for the air war has occupied a key position in an administration allegedly devoted to "human rights" is not accidental. The "human rights" facade of the Carter White House is merely an attempt to refurbish the Vietnam-tattered moral authority of U.S. imperialism, in order to build support for future Christmas bombings...
...continued inaction of the Veterans' Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency is criminally callous in the face of scientific evidence indicating the toxicity of dioxin. The United States is now turning a weapon of war back on its own people, tragically disregarding the available example of Vietnam...