Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be disastrous for President-elect Nixon to be persuaded by the top brass of the Pentagon that they could win the Vietnam war militarily in a few more months, Professor Edwin O. Reischauer said yesterday...
Reischauer, former American ambassador to Japan, spoke at a press conference at the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel as one of four new "diplomatic sponsors" of the Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace, a group consisting of 2300 executives...
...American sacrifice in Vietnam will be worthwhile only if the United States holds out for "at least a partial victory," Lee Kwan Yew, Prime Minster of Singapore, told a crowd of about 125 last night...
...generally glum outlook is brightened, Lee said, by the possibility that the United States effort in South Vietnam will convince all the powers in Southeast Asia that wars of national liberation can enlarge into dangerously wide conflicts...
...Subversion and economic and political pressures result in frittering away of energies," he said. He added that the United States is buying time in Vietnam to permit second generation leaders in other Southeast Asian countries to put their nations back on a constructive track...