Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since he escaped from Vietnam with his mother and younger sister in 1981, Nguyen hasn't let his new-found culture or language stop him from achieving much more than the ordinary Ivy League applicant...
...father, Tot Nguyen, was killed in the Vietnam...
...increasing difficulties with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Miller left the State Department after three years in Washington. "I didn't want to be part of the policy," he says...
...post-war period, policy making was left to the President, and Congress was involved only as an "afterthought," Miller says. This system went "unquestioned when it appeared things were successful" but was reexamined in light of the Vietnam experience, he says...
...Executive branch's monopoly on secret information gives it a great edge, says Miller. As staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by former Sen. Frank Church, Miller was involved in Congress' post-Vietnam, post-Watergate investigation of the role of secrecy in a democracy...