Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HOWEVER, what was most immediately repugnant about the COCA memo I received last week was the attitude it conveyed and, more particularly, the scare tactics it employed to conjure up images of another Vietnam War. Yet these scare tactics seemed woefully misguided--after all, Vietnam was a time when thousands of elitist students burned their draft cards and graciously let the poor and minorities do the fighting for them...
...growing up in the age of Nixon, Brezhnev and Reagan. Indeed, the cultural landmarks used to define a "post-war world order" were planted before most of us were even born: Prague 1968; Berlin 1961; Hungary 1956. Even in Asia, Mao's Cultural Revolution and America's involvement in Vietnam began and reached their peak in the mid- to late 1960s...
...popular as it was 10 or 15 years ago," says Deutch, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1974. "When we graduated, we were very interested in pro bono work. But that seems to be less true now, because there's been a societal change. Then, the Vietnam was was closer at hand. Now, more people are satisfied with their economic condition...
...this insensitivity that allowed Harvardians to evade the Vietnam draft with clean consciences and let the "hill-billies" die in their stead (a point made by James M. Fallows '70 in his brilliant essay "What Did You Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy...
...argue that Prime Minister Hun Sen is a communist and push for a democratic government, but it should not do so against the wishes of the Cambodian people. Vietnam freed Cambodia from an oppresive and inhumane regime. Although many Cambodians still do not trust the Vietnamese, they would like to avoid a civil...