Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman's novel" in the worst sense of the expression. Instead of the Great American Novel Francine du Plessix Gray wanted to write, she has produced a pretentious Fear of Flying, replete with third-hand insights about liberation and the mandatory ain't-it-awful references to the Vietnam War, political assassinations etc. Gray even presents her own version of the quest for the "zipless fuck...
...Western interests" that Kissinger sees threatened by radical movements in South Africa are first and foremost Western business interests. In Chile and in Vietnam, it was blatantly obvious that Kissinger was more concerned with protecting U. S. capital than protecting democracy, more interested in defending profits than defending human rights. In spite of superficial differences, the same is true of his policies in Southern Africa...
...symbol of the well-developed relationship between Harvard and Washington, D. C. Many other Harvard professors and administrators have accepted high government positions. In foreign policy, the list includes former U. N. ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, and presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy, architect of the U. S. strategy in Vietnam. Similar connections exist in domestic social and economic policy. As Secretary of Labor, John Dunlop designed and administered a wage-price freeze that somehow was a lot better at holding down wages than prices, and Moynihan was one of Nixon's main advisors on domestic affairs...
...Kistiakowsky. Many students are familiar with this sort of involvement of natural scientists in war research, but fewer realize that the same kind of complicity exists in the social sciences. An outstanding example of the latter is Samuel P. Huntington, who justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs, Huntington explained that the National Liberation Front held the "good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities," and that the NLF would "remain a powerful and effective force which cannot...
...seminar. Kissinger was also a consultant to the State Department, and in 1966. This money was used to bring members of the elites of Third World nations into Kissinger's seminar. Kissinger was also a consultant to the State Department, and in 1966 made a secret trip to South Vietnam in this capacity...