Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOULD like to express my sincere and deep gratitude to Senator Gruenand to all of you here for having tried so hard and so long to bring peace to Vietnam. I believe that the majority of the Vietnamese people share this feeling with...
President Thieu of South Vietnam on November 20th, 1968 said in a speech which was reported in Dan Toc and several other Saigon newspapers that talking with the NLF would be like marrying a prostitute and that he would "make it impossible for the United States to withdraw any of its support." On Feb. 6 of this year, in a speech in Go Cong which was reported by Duoc Nha Nam the following day. Mr. Thieu ordered the provincial chief to "arrest and imprison all monks and priests who talk politics and arouse the population." He also added, "We could...
...neutrality. Those who do so will be branded as "bon nguy hoa, tay sai Cong San" (or, "peace pretenders and Communist lackeys") and will be subjected to imprisonment or death according to law code N. 004/65. Within the last few months, hundreds of students and intellectuals in Vietnam have been arrested, many imprisoned, some killed, because they happened to refer to the issue of peace...
This policy of punishing those who are for peace is even carried out right here in this country. Already, a number of Vietnamese students who have expressed their desires for peace have had their passports revoked and some are being recalled to Vietnam...
This pattern of quietly escalating in Vietnam while talking peace in Washington has become too familiar. No one should stand for it any more. Vietnam has become Nixon's war, and the immunity from criticism which is traditionally accorded a new President should end. Senator Kennedy was wrong in urging his fellow Democrats to lay off the Administration's handling of the war for a little longer. The Johnson-Nixon transition was so smooth because it was really no transition at all: the faces have changed, but the policies remain the same...