Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might not stay, however, in its present form. As the Vietnam war has intensified political activism in American colleges and universities, anti-war students and faculty have become increasingly sensitive to the status of the military on their campuses. A number of anti-ROTC campaigns have begun at schools across the country...
...abolish ROTC is extremely unlikely, it is possible that many colleges will adopt a policy of dissociation similar to the one approved by the B.U. faculty this winter. This possibility arises partly from the increased sensitivity to the military presence on the campuses since the beginning of the Vietnam war. But that is not the most important factor, and even without the war it is quite conceivable that many colleges would soon be trying to reduce the official status enjoyed by ROTC on their campuses...
...little wonder that Stokely's book came as a major shock to white radicals. His analysis seems virtually to have overlooked the corporate capitalistic infra-structure of American society that is the focus of their attention. And only once in the entire book is even passing reference made to Vietnam. Martin Luther King, not to mention white radicals, must see this as a serious omission...
...stand on foreign policy is far different from the radicals'. He does not believe that U.S. business and military involvement in the "third world" is wrong. And even in Vietnam, he does not favor immediate unconditional withdrawal...
This erosion of support may force Johnson to reevaluate the situation in Vietnam instead of capitulating to General Westmoreland's latest troop demands...