Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rear of the hall were the Exhibits of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Most of the armed service exhibits spotlighted the M-16 rifle currently used in Vietnam. A Marine sergeant in dress blues defended the rifle, which has frequently been accused of jamming in combat. "It shoots real fine, even on full automatic," he said. An Air Force man in civilan clothes ponited out one of the finer points of the M-16--an attachment which fires grenades: "It's really two guns in one. Weighs a total of 9 pounds. You fire this...
...have been asked to join other members of the Harvard Faculty in offering support "as we individually can" to "those Harvard students who decide to refuse cooperation with Selective Service because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral." I can say, without qualification, that I despise the war and hate to see anyone going off to fight in it. At the same time, beyond the means suggested in Conrad Lyn's well-known book, the consequences of refusal to comply with the draft are jail or exile...
...January, Harvard refused to allow WGBH-TV to televise a Lowell Lecture Hall teach-in on the war in Vietnam arranged after Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Michael Ferber, a second-year graduate student, and two other men were indicted for conspiracy to help others evade the draft...
...letter is dated March 26, but was mailed Wednesday. An insert, pointing to the recent peace overtures in Vietnam, says, "The war remains morally and politically indefensible; the draft is still a terrible reality. We continue to believe that opposition to the draft is an honest and direct response to the choices forced upon each...
Other issues will bedevil the peace makers. They will included guarantees of basic civil and political liberties to the "losers" inside South Vietnam; the dismantling of American military bases in South Vietnam; the extent of America's future military commitment to pro Western nations in Southeast Asia; and the initiation of regional economic cooperation--and internal political democracy--to eliminate the wretched social conditions which underlie the 27-year-old peasant revolt throughout Vietnam. Thus, if the United States intends to avoid a "fake" solution in Southeast Asia, its leader--whoever is elected to succeed President Johnson--must make...