Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular, Mr. McGill's excellent stand on racial justice must be contrasted with his deplorable views on Vietnam. An insistent supporter of the administration's tragic policy in southeast Asia, McGill (as well as the Constitution's editorials) would make his fellow-Georgian, Dean Rusk, proud. He has often substituted ridicule for reason, and he regularly employs the notion of "reason" in a most curious fashion...
...traveling about one's country one encounters some of the more extreme manifestations of the American peace cult, which is so hung up on the issue of Vietnam that many of its spokesmen will frankly admit they were hoping for a sound U.S. defeat or disaster in Southeast Asia...
Surgeon Thomas LaFarge also brought moments of wit to The Lampoon with his slogan "Forget Vietnam! See The Meat-Cleaver Man!" and his description and catalogue of mutilations that can spare American youth "the indignities of conscription." Similarly revivifying was the poem inspired by Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" which Dr. La Farge dedicated to the CRIMSON...
...diplomats will also have to overcome an alarming tendency to apply totally different standards to Communist and American actions. President Johnson warned against interpreting the bombing curtailment as a sign of weakness, but U.S. officials immediately called North Vietnam's acceptance of Paris a retreat. U.S. military men justify new military sweeps--the largest of the war--on the grounds that they're defensive, but Dean Rusk warns that any comparable Communist escalation will jeopardize peace talks...
Among reform proposals were immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition to the draft, and support of certain of Afro's demand...