Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tucker, who has recently published several articles in the political journals Foreign Policy and Commentary, described Reagan's global vision as very simple and belonging to an old order. Reagan wants to return to a pre-Vietnam situation, he added...
...Molineux called in the heat. This is nothing new for DSOC. DSOC leader Michael Harrington spent the first half of the sixties making red-baiting attacks on the Students for a Democratic Society, cheering on the Bay of Pigs invasion and going all the way with LBJ in Vietnam. It is such anti-communism that has made DSOC widely known as "State Department-socialists...
...guiding principle of McGovern's political career--as such, it was both his greatest virtue and the source of his ultimate failure. On the one hand, it gave him the determination to speak his mind, to take principled but unpopular positions on civil rights, on political reform, and on Vietnam. And his faith gave him the confidence to believe in the underlying sincerity of his political opponents: that is why he could be friends with Barry Goldwater, and why he thinks it is possible to out-argue the New Right...
...distressed at the fashion which the Irish pols were running the city, formed the CCA in the 1940s, and for a long time the organization was dominated by a sort of Yankee Republicanism, distinguished by a distaste for corruption and a desire for efficiency. With the turbulence of the Vietnam era, that changed. The swing leftward on national issues among the well-to-do, especially the academic well-to-do, translated on the local level into support for rent control and other programs designed to aid the poor. All of a sudden, having a diverse city was as important...
...husband of one week is a Vietnam veteran. For some time, I had kept myself going in the "scrips" that his psychiatrist gave him. Then I decided to come here. When I first arrived, I was high, but after a few days I started to come down. A lot of feelings that had been suppressed because of my problem started to come out. Every kind of feeling that you could ever think of--hurt, pressure, frustration, sexual feelings, and loneliness. I once used to try constantly to injure myself [her wrists are scarred heavily]. Here I thought I would just...