Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although they signed on to the U.N.-sponsored peace plan in Paris 19 months ago, the Khmer Rouge refused to demobilize their fighters last June as called for in the accord, contending that the regime in Phnom Penh, installed by Vietnam in 1979, was still Hanoi's puppet. By March the Maoist guerrillas had launched a military campaign intended to destroy the credibility of the promised election. During April and May, Khmer Rouge fighters mounted scores of attacks, killing at least 80 civilians...
...crusty Aiken came down from Putney, Vermont, determined to nudge his G.O.P. to the left. Immediately he confronted Ike-confidant Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. "No more middle of the road," Aiken declared, "when that is ! halfway between Grant and McKinley." Later he would counsel President Johnson on Vietnam: "Declare victory and leave...
...After hearing the concerns of anti-Vietnam War student protests the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) votes to withdraw all curricular and academic status from ROTC. Cadets could now only participate in programs...
...child of a retired Marine Corps Officer, Vietnam veteran, and graduate of the United States Naval Academy, I am responding to comments recently made by Brent McGuire, Policy Director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club...
...government concentrator and associate editorial chair of The Crimson while at Harvard, Blumenthal weighed several career options, including journalism, Asian studies and medicine. But in the midst of the Vietnam War, with a very good chance of being drafted, Blumenthal decided to enter Harvard Medical School...