Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peretz, who was co-chairman of the McCarthy national finance committee, called opponents of the war in Vietnam who are supporting Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey people who "have got to be where the action is, however high the cost...
...objections to ROTC units at Harvard are based on opposition to the American government's policies in Vietnam and other nations in the underdeveloped world. Because we see this policy as an expansionist and counter-revolutionary one, our objections to ROTC are definitely political and go beyond what Colonel Pell rightly calls "academic/administrative issues" such as merely depriving ROTC of course credit. The "right" to be trained by ROTC as an officer in the United States Armed Forces is an opportunity, in Colonel Pell's words, to "stand at the head of a platoon of 44 other young Americans...
...taking action is an admirable goal, but that, in some circumstances, there is an absolute moral imperative to take action that may or may not produce "good results." If there has ever been such a time for Americans, it is surely now. Regardless of your immediate political position on Vietnam (short of unqualified support for the containment of Asian Communism by "any means necessary"), you must admit that the results of our actions have been, in practice, inadvertent genocide. Our original goals may have been decent, although support of an oligarchic dictator is hardly praise-worthy, but we long...
...with East Asia, in conjunction with the East Asian Research Center, will announce publicly that henceforth their policies with regard to CIA personnel (analysts and operatives) would be to exclude them altogether from participation in any Harvard Asian programs. As long as the government continues to practice genocide in Vietnam, condone oppression in Taiwan, cause subversion in Thailand and Laos, and minister to immoral objectives in its Asian policies generally, that we would feel constrained by our consciences neither to participate in, nor to allow Harvard facilities to be used for, such purposes. "Toleration" cannot justifiably extend to institutions devoted...
Bundy, who in a major shift in policy last week urged a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam and de-escalation of the war, warned that "when you ask military men to adopt a political strategy, you are asking...