Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call on all to come demonstrate in protest against this monster drenched with the blood of workers and peasants in Vietnam and Chile. The Harvard Spartacus Youth League will join with students from Boston University to protest the presence of the recruiters at 11:30 on February 16, at Government Center...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security affairs adviser to President Carter, named his old colleague and coauthor to the post after Huntington--a controversial figure in foreign policy affairs because of his support for bombing in Vietnam--failed to be appointed Foreign Security Adviser in the Defense Department...
...easy to understand why Carter would pick such a masterful tacticain to head the Pentagon. After all, when Brown worked for LBJ he was one of the "whiz kids" with a sure answer to the nation's "problem" in Vietnam. Bomb 'em, he said, and bomb 'em some more. Such a history must have impressed Carter, who hopes we all will sleep easier with Harold Brown in the war room...
...clear that it would be the type of establishment that only let rooms to people with the right grandparents. When Griffin Bell was sworn in last month, he made a symbolic gesture by reopening the front doors to the Justice Building, doors that had been sealed shut since the Vietnam War protests during the Nixon administration. Unlike the doors to Bell's private all-white and all-made Atlanta clubs, those portals will be open to all Americans...
...just this refusal to address the moral issues involved in the tragedy of Vietnam that makes the Carter pardon unacceptable. An unconditional, universal amnesty for all Vietnam-era draft resisters is the only acceptable solution. By failing to admit that the government's Vietnam policy was horribly wrong and that those who opposed that immoral policy in the only way they could were right, the pardon fails to serve the needs of those who were the victims and in many ways the greatest heroes of that time...