Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chester W. Nimitz. It bears the same name as the World War I battlewagon that ended up as a target ship for General Billy Mitchell's famed demonstration of air power in 1923. Today's New Jersey faces a potential new threat, in the form of North Vietnam's Russian-made Styx missiles, which sank the Israeli destroyer Elath last October. Just in case the North Vietnamese venture to use the Styx, the New Jersey carries its own secret countermeasures against missiles and is escorted by two missile-firing cruisers...
...liberal opposition within the Nixon Administration can be found in the current issue of the Ripon Forum. The Forum, the publication and essence of the six-year-old Ripon Society, a Cambridge-based group of young GOP liberals, includes this month a series of brief policy papers on Vietnam and the draft, the results of a Ripon poll on the presidential elections, and a guest editorial on Vietnam by the first of the Republican doves, Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon...
...Hatfield article is a thinly-veiled attack on Richard Nixon's failure to move to the left of the Administration on Vietnam. Hatfield rather unexpectedly endorsed Nixon prior to the Republican Convention, provoking speculation that Nixon was moving toward a dovish position on the war. Whether Hatfield himself believed this is unclear, but any hopes he may have had were disspelled at Miami Beach, where Nixon aides tried to modify the dovish tone of his seconding speech for Nixon...
...like fashion, the University became the surrogate for all the tensions and frustrations of United States policy in Vietnam...
...Vietnam and the senator's voting record have become only peripheral issues, and that is why McGovern is solidly in front of Gubbrud, walking into a conservative Republican wind...