Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired CEO's, chairs or partners in investment banking, real estate, law firms, and other large corporations. Not a single one of the candidates says a word about divestment, which The New York Times (April 5, 1986) referred to as "the biggest campus issue since the end of the Vietnam War." Rather, we get from the official candidates such platitudes as "To maintain Harvard's preeminence in today's rapidly changing world will reqUire the continuing support from one of Harvard's greatest resources, its alumni/ae...
...that changed amid the anti-Vietnam war, anti-establishment, student protests throughout the '60s when many undergraduates and faculty members demanded that ROTC get out of Cambridge. The strong feelings against ROTC resulted in the arrest of hundreds of protesters, sitins at Harvard buildings, and finally, the bloody takeover of University Hall...
However, the SDS linked campus ROTC units to the U.S. military and the unpopular Vietnam War, and demanded that Harvard break off all ties with the military training program as part of a list of demands made during the University Hall takeover in April 1969. The University responded the next day by sending in state and local police units to forcibly remove protesters, an action which resulted in the arrest of 250 activists and dozens of injuries...
Both because of its irrational and chronic proclivity toward hitting tiny nails with the largest hammer it can find, and because of its fascist modus operandi, the Administrative Board must be abolished. Likewise, as we have said, the Vietnam-war era Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--which is periodically trotted out solely to punish left-wing political demonstrators without benefit of appeal to another court--must go as well...
Doctors have protested war, hunger, and social injustice before. In the late 1960s, physicians rallied against the Vietnam quagmire with the best of them. But now the issue is economics. Physicians are looking into their pockets and deciding that it's time to seize the hearts and minds of their legislators...