Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miller said his plans for the campaign include a voter registration drive on campuses across the nation and a newsletter about the campaign activities. He said Gore's youthfulness--the candidate is 39--and his opposition to the Vietnam War will help attract students to the presidential aspirant...
...nice to think that, by flexing a little economic muscle, the United States can make any problem go away anywhere in the world. As Vietnam demonstrated so handily, however, this is rarely the case. While the grave economic crisis of the Philippines has certainly been an albatross around Aquino's neck, it is not the only, or indeed even the most major, of her problems. So even if American aid could suddenly put the economy on its feet--which it can't--stability would not return...
After writing critical articles on the B-1 Bomber and the inefficacy of the U.S. strategy of controlled escalation in Vietnam, Carlson said he left the military to join the Council of Economic Advisors...
...years. They have watched the United States' share of the world economy drop from nearly half to close to a quarter. They observe the growing power of the Japanese and Germans, and they say the decline is unstoppable. They chart the failures of our military power in Vietnam and now the Gulf, and they cry "Uncle...
...society to change its attitudes before universities can change them for society. But on closer inspection, it is clear that the university is one of the places where social standards and codes of human behavior can be transformed--whether for good or bad--as witnessed in the anti-Vietnam protests of the 1960s...