Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard summer school student who earlier this year sailed a boat full of medical supplies to North Vietnam will tell bout his voyage tomorrow night at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Draft Project...
...trip, sponsored by "A Quaker Action Group," turned to North Vietnam, after the government of South Vietnam had refused to allow Phoenix to unload its material in Danang and again at Saigon. In both ports, what Brazton called "mysterious accidental collisions" with South Vietnamese patrol boats resulted in damage to the Quaker ship...
...Secondly, Johnson completely misjudged, miscalculated the Vietnamese. He thought that if the strongest country, militarily and industrially, decided that something was right for Vietnam, then the other side would capitulate. Johnson is a man of action and feels that if you know that you have the strength, show your strength resolutely, and the other side will cave in. The other side hasn't caved in. To Johnson I am sure that it is inconceivable that this tiny country is beating...
...hoping to win, at the negotiating table, what he has been unable to win on the battle-field. From what I have seen, I don't think Johnson is prepared to offer anything to the Vietnamese. And while we wait, 1000 or 2000 Americans are dying every month in Vietnam. The conference is a very ingenious way to take the pressure off himself [Johnson] and Vice-President Humphrey, and it takes some of the wind out of McCarthy's sails...
...gleaming black hair is no longer neatly combed back. The mustache has been trimmed. Gone is the dashing Captain Midnight look: tailored black flying suit, violet scarf, pearl-handled .38 revolver. At 37, the Vice President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, has taken to wearing bulky Mao-style suits -and the baggy new look is in keeping with both his sagging political fortunes and his efforts to fashion a new political image...