Word: vietnamize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night watchman take him from Adams to Winthrop to Lowell Houses on various nights of the week, was coming off a different career at that time. It was only natural, he reflects, for a 23-year Army man who had seen action in World war II, Korea and Vietnam to feel some resentment upon seeing Viet Cong flags waved around at Commencement...
Another issue involved in the Truong-Humphrey case is the future of American relations with Vietnam. Carter may pledge a commitment to human rights elsewhere in the globe; with regard to the nation that we bombed and delohated in the name of democracy, however, the lofty rhetoric is abandoned. Truong and Humphrey's trial may be interpreted by the Vietnamese government as a clear indication that the United States is neither ready nor willing to normalize relations, nor is our government willing to consider the payment of reparations...
LAST MONTH a federal jury in Virginia convicted David Truong and Ronald Humphrey on counts of espionage, stealing government documents and passing them to the government of Vietnam. On June 23 the two men will be sentenced, facing a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. While Truong and Humphrey did, indeed, steal some classified documents and give them to Vietnam through a CIA agent, they maintain that their purpose was not espionage but a part of a campaign to normalize relations between the United States and Vietnam. During their trial, both prosecution and defense witnesses disagreed whether the passing...
...Truong-Humphrey case indicates not only Carter's maintenance of a foolish Cold-Warrior attitude towards Vietnam, it represents an infringement of civil liberties. For these reasons we condemn the conviction of David Truong and Ronald Humphrey and hope that they will receive a fair trial in their appeal...
...word socialist an obscenity. I agree. He thinks Cuba is a shining beacon of revolutionary hope. Yet Cuba is the indentured servant of the Soviet Union, and is now paying off its debts by spilling Cuban blood in Africa, as we spilled American blood in Vietnam. And, as for Castro's story as to why he imprisoned Huber Matos, as a veteran reporter Mr. Swanson should know that one does not take at face value the reason given by the jailors, expecially when the jailed have no possibility of replying. In any event, the holding of several thousand political prisoners...