Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last March, students at Cornell pressed Sen. Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) to make a clear statement on Vietnam. He replied that, although he deplored the killing, he did not want to say anything that would interfere with Nixon's bargaining position in the Paris peace talks. But, he added, if nothing had changed in six months, he would support rapid withdrawal from Vietnam...
...sounded like the usual political problem Republican senators were dishing out last spring, and no one paid much attention to it. Six months later, on September 25, Goodell introduced Bill S. 3000, calling for the complete withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam by December...
...trying to convince him to say something. Many of the staff members have said that it was the efforts of the interns that finally convinced Goodell he had to do something. And, as he often does, he committed himself entirely to a cause he believes in, introducing the Vietnam Disengagement Bill...
...early opponents of the Vietnam war at a time when such opposition was hardly popular, I view with a certain amusement the current scramble over the resolution on the Vietnam war by those who several years ago were mute in face of this example of the vulgarities of American imperial power. It is. I suspect, a welcome event that opposition to the monstrous Vietnam war has become popular and respectable among the Harvard faculty. But it is unfortunate indeed that late-comers to the anti-war movement display such poor understanding of the political limits of a university faculty...
Peter C. Aldrich 66. chairman of the HBS Vietnam Peace Committee, denied the last charge outright and called thefirst three charges "almost meaningless...