Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changes in the 1960s-era symbols of student activism are indicative of a deeper change in the goals of activism in the 1980s. In 1968 at Columbia University, several hundred students occupied a university building to protest the war in Vietnam. Police stormed the building, clubbing and arresting students. More than 600 people were arrested, almost 90 students were hospitalized, and three faculty members were injured...
...events help us to place ourselves in the continuum of American history so much as the assassination, almost a quarter-century ago, of President John F. Kennedy '40. A dividing line between prosperity, tranquility and peace on the one side, and Vietnam, inflation and internal unrest on the other, Camelot's violent ending marks the time when the American Century suddenly lost its innocence and optimism...
...complete and irreparable destruction was the objective in Vietnam, we definitely won the war. Today, 15 years after the United States pulled out, Vietnam is one of the poorest countries in the entire world. Communist or not, Vietnam will never present a "threat" to the United States, economic or military...
...debate over Central America has centered on how to bring democracy to the region. The Reagan administration claims to be trying to do just that; its critics say that the means subvert the ends. But if we remember Vietnam, it may just be that Reagan administration opponents have been too generous. The chaos and destruction which have enveloped Central America may not be the sad costs of a misguided effort on behalf of freedom. Instead, they may be the result of a cold and calculating policy that holds that weak neighbors make good neighbors...
...America is still dominated by strong-arm dictators and torn by revolution, one must ask: were these Reagan's real goals in Central America? Or was he trying to reduce the economies of Central America to a complete shambles and to cripple the region forever, like we did to Vietnam? If this was the strategy in Central America, the Reagan administration has been highly successful...