Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday's Nuclear Convocation at Harvard, one of 150 similar gatherings at colleges in 42 states. Organizers of the national program estimated yesterday that more than 100,000 people attended the conferences and compared the event to the initial teach-ins that sparked campus protest to American involvement in Vietnam...
...Force ROTC officials agree that a number of factors loom large in their program's rising popularity. They point to the general trend among Americans towards conservatism, and the military's beginning to lose the terrible stigma acquired with the years in Vietnam. The program itself is also more attractive to students than it was ten years ago, they...
...thing Russell seems to have learned from his father is patriotism. "I do believe in the United States," he says," I would definitely fight for our way of life." A call comes from a neighbor in his Holworthy entryway: "How many Vietnames babies did you kill today, Cliff?" He shrugs and laughs. "They like to give me shit sometimes, but on the whole people have been pretty good about it." After a moment he adds, "Everyone around here is really good at making statements--I don't know enough about what happened in Vietnam to make a statement...
...objections to unilateral disarmament exist; for the most part, they boil down to one common idea. That without the deterrent offered by nuclear weapons, the Russians will be free to walk all over us in the world, and perhaps even in this nation. While we think the lessons of Vietnam and Afghanistan may show that chance is not as great as some think, we recognize the distinct advantages for all concerned of bilateral disarmament. As first steps, our administration should work for a verifiable ban on all test explosions and on flight tests of guidance systems. We should also adopt...
...advanced war technology is angerous, for it holds the possibility of triggering Armageddon, not only by its physical presence, but also through the psychology it creates. Advanced weaponry is designed for war between the superpowers, and such war ought to be unsinkable. Or it is designed for wars like Vietnam--wars designed to extend our economic stranglehold on the world--nd hence immoral. Think about a proper war for us to fight; it not an easy task...