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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking back at the lessons of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara warned a full house at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum yesterday about the importance of negotiations...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: McNamara Describes Lessons Learned in Vietnam | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

McNamara sat on a panel with James G. Blight, professor of international relations and director of the Vietnam War Project at Brown University and Robert K. Brigham, an associate professor of history at Vassar College. The three discussed the book they recently co-wrote, Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: McNamara Describes Lessons Learned in Vietnam | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...watched three young men give their draft notices to the college chaplain and proclaim, "We are not criminals. It is the government who is criminal to conduct this war in Vietnam...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 1960s Activist Counsels New Generation | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

...watched three young men give their draft notices to the college chaplain and proclaim, "We are not criminals. It is the government who is criminal to conduct this war in Vietnam...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 1960s-Era Activist Counsels New Generation | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

Clinton is making the same mistake Lyndon Johnson made in Vietnam in supposing that bombing will force a rational response from an irrational person. Assuming a dictator will act in the best interest of his nation's people is an error of judgment the West keeps making. Milosevic, like Ho Chi Minh, sees the struggles of his countrymen only as the means to achieve an ethnically pure nation. The bait has been taken: NATO and the U.S. are headed down the slippery slope of ever increasing commitment in Yugoslavia. CHARLES GARNER Greensboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1999 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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