Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coleman was politically active at Harvard, serving as a member of the Youth Caucus, a bipartisan organization that mobilized opposition to the Vietnam war. She was also a campaign volunteer for Paul N. McCloskey, a California Republican congressman who ran against Richard M. Nixon on an anti-war platform...
...return to Washington, Miller was appointed a junior assistant to then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk with responsibility for Vietnam. As in Iran, Miller says he found a "confusion of purposes in U.S. policy." "The simplifications that were being used [to explain the policy] were less than the complicated truth," Miller says...
...film consumer, Delta Force tries to play upon the basest of human emotions: revenge. Tired of being kicked around by nasty terrorists, Americans can finally see their boys fight back. As such, the film is nothing but an inferior version of Rambo II, in which our frustration about the Vietnam War was used and abused. But even Sylvester Stallone was able to come up with a remotely realistic story in which to insert the film's blind, patriotic manipulations...
State Sen. George Bachrach portrays himself as an iconoclast and not "a back-slapping member of the club." His record of activism includes demonstrations against the Vietnam War, civil rights advocacy, anti-nuclear rallies, and a 1984 arrest while protesting in the offices of Deak-Perera, a dealer in South African gold Krugerrands...
Vallely, a former Marine, has close associations with U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), and, like Kerry, has been active in Vietnam Veterans Against The War. Billing himself "the other guy," he has launched a massive publicity campaign, partially financed by $71,000 of his own money...