Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert S. McNamara returned to Harvard last week, nearly 30 years after his last visit, when he was mobbed by 800 jeering students who demanded to know why the United States was involved in a civil war in Vietnam...
Judge (Kadeem Hardison), a Vietnam vet studying at Berkeley, becomes involved when a friend persuades him to monitor the police handling of a community demonstration. When a police squad comes to "deal with" the peaceful neighborhood protest, they deliberately cover their badges before diving into the crowd of mourners. Van Peebles' camera careens through the crowd as the sickening thuds of police clubs thrashing innocent protestors rise to an unbearable crescendo above the images of their bloodied bodies being dragged into police vans...
...perhaps meet once, maybe twice," we would like to take this opportunity to announce that our third meeting will be held in the Winthrop House Owen Room, on May 8th at 6:00pm. Dr. Murray Heflant will speak about his frustrations as a neurosurgeon stationed in Japan during the Vietnam War. Our fourthmeeting, scheduled for the week of the 15th, will feature Dr. Susan Pauker of Harvard Medical School, an expert on genetic testing and its ethical and social implications. The Hippocratic Society...
KIET: Vietnamese have a tradition that when the direction is well defined and people are benefiting, everyone follows consistently. No one wants poverty or instability. We think that most of our people would like to see Vietnam become a developed and prosperous country. We have maintained this direction for the last nine years. Our people will follow this line...
KIET: There are positive signs in the relationship between Vietnam and America. We have followed very closely the interest of the American people on this anniversary. It is encouraging that both Americans and Vietnamese are showing a new willingness to look to the future and bury the past. We would sincerely like the American people to understand that we are not commemorating this anniversary to look back to what happened, but to look forward to the next 20 years and beyond...