Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have yet to meet anyone who is "for the war" in Vietnam. For a long time the only questions have been how to conclude it or, failing that, how to extricate ourselves from it. About these matters opinions differ and feelings run high. Though the war and the tactics for settling it are quite properly subjects of individual or group concern and action, they are not, in my view, matters on which the University as a corporate body should take a policy position...
...military bureaucracy plans a protracted Vietnam war "at a level acceptable to the American people," I. F. Stone, independent journalist and publisher of his own Washington weekly, charged last night...
Speaking along with John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, before 1300 people at Sanders Theatre, Stone claimed that the military bureaucracy had learned nothing from Vietnam. "The lesson for them is not 'no more Vietnams.' but to make it easier next time, like in Guatemala or the Dominican Republic." he said...
...Vietnam-President Nguyen Van Thieu. in a funeral oration Tuesday at the common grave of 400 persons massacred by the Viet Cong last year, appealed to Americans "to have the courage and clear sight to remain here" and help South Vietnam...
Without making an overt reference to today's Vietnam Moratorium in the U.S., Thien said, "I am determined against a coalition government in South Vietnam and an unconditional withdrawal of the allies when South Vietnam is not yet ready to defend itself...