Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world where flying men hunt elephants, people will just naturally want to get high," Michael Moriarty writes his wife (Tuesday Weld) back home in a Berkely bookstore. Moriarty is a war correspondent in Vietnam; what he's seen there disgusts him, and he just wants to get out with the big score--two kilos of heroin. His carrier is Nolte, a Nietzsche-reading, Zen master he knew in the Marines. But Moriarty has no idea just how much entrepeneurial capitalism is frowned upon by corporate America--just who do you cross, running smack from the Golden Triangle...
...about the failure of the NLF ideals, and blames the Hanoi regime for co-opting the NLF and radicalizing its more moderate platform. He says he refused to serve on the NLF Finance Committee because he was chosen to draw up a plan to confiscate all private property in Vietnam, not an original NLF proposal. The idealistic people in the NLF sought to rely upon the power of Hanoi to overthrow the Saigon government, but once the objective was realized the Communists in Hanoi had no need for the NLF which they looked on as a tool," Toai says...
Whether or not Toai and Hieu speak for other political prisoners, they are passionately eager to spread their stories of political repression. And they pointedly direct their reproaches to Americans, who they believe must share the blame for Vietnam's sufferings. "I want the American government to condemn the human rights violations in Vietnam, but the American people want to forger Vietnam because they are ashamed," Toai says, adding "They are ashamed because they were wrong...
...other recurring expense is the possible detrimental effect on gifts. Again, this is highly speculative. In the past, Harvard has adopted policies which were not popular with conservative corporate executives--for example, abolishing ROTC during the Vietnam War, or refusing to fire a tenured faculty member and former communist during the McCarthy period. In short, we think the financial harm from taking aprincipled stand has been greatly exaggerated...
Horner's two-week excursion, as a member of a national policy panel sponsored by the United Nations Association of the U.S., is proceeding as scheduled despite the recent Chinese invasion of Vietnam...