Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down my country boy you're fucking with the fightin' side of me. Haggard is the quintessential philosopher of our times. He has much more to say to me than Hegel. He celebrates the virtues of rural life, of homosexuality in prisons, of staying off welfare, of dying in Vietnam. Let's get a beer." And watching Camfort sputter from burning his lips, he quickly ground out the butt that dropped from Camfort's shaking hand in the carpet, and adding, "Cigarettes too." He swept out of the room, and the others followed...
...editors not see that if they can deny Kissinger an academic position because, in their opinion, Kissinger has a "blatant disregard for human life and democratic procedure," those who also can be excluded from a university community are a conventional Marxist, a Vietnam draft evader, and a women's libber? After all, is violent revolution a "democratic procedure"? Is abortion a "blatent disregard for human life...
...although the U.S. has finally made diplomatic overtures to Vietnam, the government has consistently refused to acknowledge its moral obligation to give the reparation aid Vietnam needs so badly for the reconstruction of a society destroyed by more than 15 years of struggle against one of the most industrially advanced nations of the world...
Private American organizations have been permitted to send $4 million in humanitarian aid, and the U.S.-supported International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has lent Vietnam $44 million, but the U.S. government continues to ignore its obligation to send direct reconstruction aid to Vietnam...
...House of Representatives last week reaffirmed its opposition to aid for Vietnam, apparently ignoring the fact that former President Richard M. Nixon secretly promised Vietnam $3.25 billion in reconstruction aid during the 1973 Paris negotiations. Congress may justifiably consider itself under no obligation to fulfill Nixon's secret promises; but that does not eliminate America's moral obligation to aid the people of Vietnam. President Carter and Congress should renounce the position reaffirmed last week--as the U.S. renounced its opposition to Vietnam's U.N. application--and send the reconstruction aid Vietnam so badly needs, and America so clearly owes...