Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment overseers candidates nominated by petition for the past four years--has demonstrated a willingness to continually address the success of its tactics. There is no standard set of tactics that is right for every movement or for every point in history. Without an overwhelmingly polarizing issue such as Vietnam to unite behind, there is no easy formula for increasing political activity. The point is to keep trying...
...statute of limitations" on America's involvement in Vietnam should never run out, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Neil Sheehan '58 told an audience of 250 at Starr Auditorium last night...
...forget Vietnam is to forget the fallible capacity we share with all mankind," said Sheehan, whose noted book A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam chronicles U.S. mistakes in the Southeast Asian war through the story of an American officer fighting there...
Sheehan, who headed United Press International's Vietnam bureau from 1962 to 1964 and obtained the Pentagon Papers as a New York Times reporter, said yesterday that until Vietnam, American wars had always been thought of as crusades characterized by "messianic rhetoric...
...Harvard, we did end ROTC and achieved a Black studies program," said Jhirad. "No, we did not change the world, but if we shortened the Vietnam War by only a few days and saved only a few Vietamese and American lives, it was worth it. I, for one, am proud of what we did," she said...