Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instinct for movement is an essential part of the American psyche, so too is its antithesis--the idea that it is bad, even wrong, to run. Running, our elders always tell us, never solved anything. It horrified most Americans to think that young men who opposed the war in Vietnam would escape to Canada. Yet as some of us read and thought about the hundreds who did just that, we say that they were right, that they were heroes for running. The lesson was brought home by the fate of the thousands who, either out of ignorance or sense...
...ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT is all but finished, and Ken Booth knows it. Vietnam, the draft, the '60s--they seem to have been forgotten. When Booth, the central figure in John Godey's novel The Talisman, and a few others who have stayed with the movement demonstrate at the White House, not even the FBI shows up to take their photographs. So Booth searches for another way to reach the public, another way for the movement to get the attention it needs. He decides they will steal the remains of the Unknown Soldier of World War II, as ransom...
...leader of the group, had been an associate professor of economics before he became involved with the fight against the war. He served in World War II, and even after devoting himself to the movement, he retained a deep feeling that somehow his war had been "good," and Vietnam was "bad." Booth believed in the rationale for the Second World War, but not for Vietnam--that, he thought even before the movement began, was an "abomination...
Ellsberg lashed out at an American policy that he termed "balance of terror." Invoking the success of student activism in helping to end the Vietnam war. Ellsberg called for a revival of that student spirit...
Ellsberg said "no war in history was ended in the way the war in Vietnam was ended," and he said that a grassroots movement, this time against nuclear power, could once again succeed. The need is just as dramatic today, he said, adding that "we must show that we can't and won't go quietly into the nuclear ovens now being prepared...