Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon said Higgins joined the Marine Corps in 1967 and saw combat in Vietnam. He has received numerous military decorations, including the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star with Combat "V," the Meritorious Service Medal and two Navy Commendation Medals...
...Club program shows little expertise. At a debate Sunday night he claimed that the Soviets had placed 25 nuclear missiles in Cuba and in previous statements he has promised to send aid to Polish rebels and to make future wars short because "we could have won Vietnam in a week or two." To solve the budget deficit, Robertson favors a "year of jubilee" in which all debts would be forgiven and has proposed selling the U.S. Post Office to raise revenue...
...Gary Hart? Often they are good ones. When Senator Hart came to speak at the Science Center on January 10, I recall questions such as, "Would you call yourself courageous?" Hart replied that this was for others to say, and mentioned that he ran McGovern's campaign against the Vietnam War when no one else would touch it; that he voted against missile systems developed in Colorado; that he is the first candidate for president to refuse PAC money. There was one question of lesser quality; toward the end of the meeting a certain fellow asked if Gary Hart...
...personal reminiscences of that most tumultuous of decades with rigorously acute political and social analysis. The author, currently a media critic and associate sociology professor at Berkeley, was one of the early presidents of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War, and an observer or participant in many of the signature events of the decade...
...seven years ago, I was just like these kids and would have appreciated somebody to help me," said Vincent Ho '91, a volunteer in the program and a former refugee from Vietnam...