Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four Harvard professors yesterday gave qualified support to a statement issued Monday by a nation-wide group of college instructors denouncing the shutdown of universities during the Vietnam Moratorium...
...TODAYS Vietnam Moratorium should mark the beginning of a mass movement to achieve one simple objective: the immediate withdrawal of all United States military and financial support from the existing governments of the Southeast Asian mainland...
President Nixon and his advisors are not yet convinced that the American people will settle only for immediate withdrawal; currently, the White House seems to feel that retaining some 200,000 American troops in Vietnam for ten years or more can be made acceptable to the American people. To disabuse them of this notion will probably require, at the least. months of mass demonstrations in favor of immediate withdrawal, and a greater percentage of Americans supporting such a policy than the 57 per cent reported in the last Gallup poll...
Such a recruiting effort seems a waste of time when there are much easier grounds-ending the waste of lives and money in Vietnam-for building the anti-war movement. These are the arguments which are responsible for the wide support the present moratorium has achieved. It would be a shame for segments of the anti-war movement to reject them now, and push for a position which will appeal only to a small minority of the American people...
President Pusey yesterday turned down a request that he officially close the University today to observe the Vietnam Moratorium...