Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ADVISING: The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), a Vietnam-era body which disciplines students for so-called neglect of responsibilities as good citizens, came under scrutiny last spring for its handling of several student protests against the University's investment practices. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences asked the Council early this year to report on students' ideas about the controversial, pseudo-judicial committee. The Council plans to release a report sometime this spring...
Francis R. Scobee, 46, who flew combat mission in Vietnam, commanded the flight and was making his second space shuttle mission...
Challenger's pilot was Mike Smith, 40, a commander in the U.S. Navy. The Challenger flight was the Vietnam veteran's first space mission...
This personal level of choice by those who acually fight is a recent progression in our democracy, left perhaps by the Vietnam war, although some would argue it existed long before that conflict. The personal level of war should not be taken for granted and then forgotten: it must be an integral part of our democracy which is based on natural rights. Because war entails such grave actions, failing to consider the reasons for it and responding only to national directives is inhuman. If an individual doesn't ponder his reasons to go to war he loses something...
...that we Marxists who defend for the Soviet Union stand for the defense of the unions, for the defense of Blacks against race terror and for workers revolution to smash capitalism? Menn is very explicit: "Sisyphist slogans like: 'Defense of the Soviet Union Begins in Central America!' 'Vietnam Was a Victory!!' 'Defend the Deformed Workers State Against Jewish Dissidents!!!''' It should be made clear that we adamantly oppose state persecution of citizens for purely ideological "crimes." But Soviet traitors like the Sakharovs, who give concrete aid to U.S. imperialism should be tried for their crimes. It is the height...