Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Moratorium is held on the fifteenth to protest Vietnam. Classes are canceled, and students and faculty protest. President Nathan M. Pusey '28, like President Nixon, remains in his office and works...
Hisses, tears and vehement debate set the tone at an emotional discussion of the Vietnam War yesterday by members of the class...
...rule I believe it's never too late to say you're sorry...but I'm having problems with that rule," said James M. Fallows '70, a Rhodes scholar and former president of The Crimson. "The crucial difference between McNamara and all those other Vietnam casualties is that he could have done something about...
...insects' home territory in South America (the milder-mannered black fire ant had arrived, also from the Southern Hemisphere, in 1918). In the 1950s and early '60s concerned government officials tried to eradicate the insects with such powerful chemicals as heptachlor and mirex. The program was later dubbed "the Vietnam of entomology" for both its destructiveness and its futility. The poisons killed not only their targets but also most other wildlife in the treated areas. By the late '70s the pesticides were banned...
...former congressman who claims that American MIAs are being held prisoner 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War is now getting official U.S. attention. A Pentagon official arrived in Hanoi today to investigate the charges by Billy Hendon, a onetime Republican lawmaker from North Carolina who had briefly handcuffed himself Saturday to the gate of a U.S. office in Hanoi that deals with MIA reports. Though no U.S. official has publicly given credence to reports of MIAs still held captive, Hendon says a contact in Thailand told him an intelligence source saw the prisoners in February. He refused...