Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liteky served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Vietnam, and he won his medal for personally rescuing 20 of his comrades in a fire-fight while rallying his out-numbered men to fend off the enemy...
...Vietnam veteran, Liteky is one of the few Americans who has seen the bitter realities that accompany foreign policies like the one that our nation is carrying out in Nicaragua. Whether by neglect or intent, the American people don't see the human cost of our activities, and make no effort to influence the policy decisions made by our strategists...
Behind the news stories and the televised rhetoric about the military and economic assistance, people are living or dying, eating or starving because of decisions made in air-conditioned offices in Washington, D.C. The Vietnam veterans saw the costs of U.S. policies in the most extremely vivid tabulation possible--in blood and lives...
...year-old lawyer's varied career includes Vietnam, service as a social aide to President Nixon, and the Massachusetts chairmanship of Citizens for America, a national conservative political action committee...
...typical Harvard student lived in the Yard as a freshman and then moved to a River House for his three upperclass years. His 'Cliffie girlfriend--who lived in the Radcliffe Quad--visited overnight, and together they protested the Vietnam...