Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burchett last visited Vietnam in the spring of this year, and is completely optimistic about the nation. "There are all sorts of problems of reconstruction," he says, "but these are just short-term. On the whole they've done a fantastic job" cleaning up defoliated areas--43 per cent of South Vietnam's arable land was destroyed by chemicals and bombs--and rebuilding a peacetime economy...
This defense is problematic at best, since it relies on value judgements, not facts. A great many reasonable Americans strongly objected to Nixon's statecraft. Many were horrified by the secret invasion of Cambodia, the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam, or the determined attempts to undermine couet-ordered busing programs. For these people, Nixon's record as president could only be considered one more mark against him in his battle for survival...
...even while he lived intimately with these young men--at 23, Herr was older than most of the Americans in Vietnam--Herr was conscious of the tension between them and himself. In "Colleagues," one of the essays in Dispatches, he examines a thought that he describes in less detail in several other essays. Unlike the draftees, the correspondents in Vietnam were volunteers, making their careers off the soldiers' battles, and the soldiers were always aware of it. In the back of their minds, Herr writes, all the correspondents were looking for the ultimate war movie, and it took them some...
...sheeit! I ain't never gettin' hit in Vietnam...
...rhetoric. French's true-to-life characters and her persuasive narrator aid her in this. In addition, she ties the women's experiences to the nation's. Poltical caucuses, not the supermarket, become the meeting place for the women. When the Harvard women gather for coffee, they talk of Vietnam, not laundromats. Some of the characters, like Mira's friend Val, become deeply, almost obsessively involved with the peace movement. Mira becomes serious about attending the meetings only after she meets an attractive man at one.) In addition to the politicized sphere in which the women move is the underlying...