Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even worse, t-shirts and bumper stickers soon read "Springsteen: the Rambo of Rock." People compared Springsteen to Stallone, the Boss to Shambo. A look at the two superstars' beliefs about war--and specifically about Vietnam--reveals some of the stupidity of this assertion...
...begin: CBS aired a 90-minute documentary in January 1982 accusing Westmoreland of overseeing "a conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" during the Vietnam War. The goal of this conspiracy, CBS said, was "to suppress and alter critical intelligence on the enemy" by reducing intelligence estimates of the number of North Vietnamese soldiers streaming into South Vietnam in the five months leading up to the Tet Offensive. In short, CBS accused Westmoreland & Co. of pulling a treasonous fast one on the American people...
...published as "news" a documentary custom-made by a network producer to fit his conspiracy theories about the Vietnam War. He had no qualms, it seems, about splicing together footage of questions and answers that didn't really follow each other, harassing and coaching witnesses or disregarding impressive sources who contradicted his thesis...
Using the failure of diplomacy during the Vietnam War as an example, Falkman says, "The diplomat needs to look deeply into the situation--not from above, but from within...
...addition to attending lectures and seminars at Harvard, Falkman has delivered speeches at the CFIA on his experience in Angola and Vietnam...