Word: vietnam
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Currently, Harvard students who wish toparticipate in ROTC must travel to MIT to do so.The University banned ROTC from campus in 1969,when tensions over the Vietnam War enraged studentactivists. In 1994, the University stoppedpayments to MIT for the ROTC program, citingconcerns about discrimination against gaystudents...
...that America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all. Second, that the U.S. should never start a fight it didn't know how to end. Powell's doctrine was designed as a kind of notional vaccine against slow-build, slow-burn conflicts like Vietnam. But last week's action exploded both principles: America was not only moving in with less than blinding violence, it was also moving in without knowing how exactly it was supposed...
...stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. A particularly affecting installment, airing on April 3, depicts America as an imperfect global paterfamilias, and looks at the country's efforts to preserve democracy in the Great War at the beginning of the century and again, ambiguously, in Vietnam later on. Pairing these two especially gruesome entanglements may seem an obvious choice, but the producers avoid the easy parallels between the already well-documented horrors of both wars...
DIED. ROY JOHNSON, 93, U.S. Navy admiral who oversaw what the government said was retaliatory U.S. attacks against North Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, an episode that escalated American involvement in Vietnam; in Virginia Beach, Va. Some scholars suggest that President Lyndon Johnson, under fire for not acting aggressively in Vietnam, invented the scenario of unprovoked attacks from North Vietnam to justify deeper U.S. engagement...
...KOSOVO AS VIETNAM Yes, but whose Vietnam? The Vietnamese people in this analogy are actually the overwhelmingly Albanian population of Kosovo, and the analogue to the Viet Cong is the Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo is the Serbs' Vietnam, not ours. If NATO really does eventually destroy Milosevic's army from the air, as General Wesley Clark has threatened (although he hasn't explained how this can be done without inflicting extensive civilian casualties), then the K.L.A. will soon be riding into Pristina as if into Saigon. Then the remaining Serbs living in Kosovo will probably flee. Milosevic knows this...