Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four hundred forty-two Harvard undergraduates have signed a statement that they will not serve in the armed forces so long as the United States is involved in the Vietnam...
Margolin added that more than 200 Radcliffe students have signed a pledge "to fight against the draft for the Vietnam war." The pledge, he explained, is a commitment to "personally involve themselves" in draft resistance work...
WHILE the world's attention was--and is--focused on the war in Vietnam, the Presidential campaign in the United States, and student revolt practically everywhere, a group of unremarkable men were gathered in Stockholm to engineer what may be a remarkable feat. They were delegates from the nations whose combined economic strength holds the International Monetary Fund together, and they were assembled to put the finishing touches on an economic device that could lead to an effective world government...
...increasing political activism and introspection is like the ripples of a stone thrown into a stream. But if that stone is big enough to redirect the stream's current, changes beyond the fighting and dying in Vietnam will take place...
Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT, expressed the feeling of the academic world when he said, "The question 'What have I done?' is one that we may well ask ourselves, as we read, each day, of fresh atrocities in Vietnam--as we create, or mouth, or tolerate the deceptions that will be used to justify the next defense of freedom...