Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mankind. If this allegiance conflicts with the specific goals of a particular society, political tension naturally results between the university and society. To take the obvious example: the university (radicals and college presidents together) is usually regarded by the Nixon Administration as the focus of domestic opposition to the Vietnam War. This opposition has had some effect in reshaping policy and seems worth maintaining...
President Nixon trumpeted the details of his fall peace offensive last week after a long prelude of press leaks. The program - draft suspension and troop withdrawal - aims transparently at lulling domestic dissent rather than stopping the shooting in Vietnam...
...month draft suspension will not calm student anger over the war in Vietnam. For one thing most students who oppose the war are exempt from the draft anyway. Only immediate and, if necessary, unilateral action to stop the fighting and remove all troops from Vietnam will win President Nixon the domestic tranquility he tried to gain last week...
...withdrawal of 35,000 more troops will not affect the fighting power of allied troops any more than the draft cut-back. The 60,000 soldiers who will have left Vietnam by December represent only 12 per cent of the present American troop strength. The units withdrawn will surrender quieter allied districts to experienced South Vietnamese units...
...President really wants peace on the nation's campuses he will have to find it a less than "honorable" peace in Vietnam...