Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...covered, knowledge has to be preserved and added to, and if you don't keep up with it you're outstripped....because the world is shrinking so fast it is incumbent upon a great university to be aware of what is going on in the world. Like Vietnam. Suddenly the U.S. was in a war with Vietnam, and we didn't know anything about it," Frye says...
Students perennially have charged that the Vietnam War-era body, which upholds the faculty's resolution protecting freedoms of speech and movement, is "illegitimate" and is invoked solely to punish political dissent...
...companion piece the ICA is showing Witness to War, Deborah Shaffer's 30-minute study of Dr. Charlie Clements, a former U.S. pilot in Vietnam who has had a conversion to Quakerism and now does medical relief work in the shell-stormed hills outside San Salvador. The quick-paced film captures the Sturm und Drang of life at the front lines, cutting throughout to interviews of Clements's friends, high school snapshots, and snippets of Clements raising funds and consciousness back home in America. In a brilliant device, Clements sits in his present-day living room and reads...
...Justice relied on the common sense conspicuously absent in a field flush with refined ideas and elegant people. During the Vietnam War, Potter Stewart--who was certainly no liberal--attempted to get the Court to rule the draft unconstitutional without a declaration...
...Russian people cannot be expected to put real pressure on their government in this matter. They, unlike American citizens during the Vietnam era, are kept in almost total darkness concerning the war in Afghanistan. In several instances, the Soviets have been known to secretly bury their dead in mass graves rather than send them home to grieving families. Last year a popular Radio Moscow announcer who publicly criticized Soviet policy in Afghanistan disappeared from public view overnight. If world public opinion is going to influence Moscow's foreign policy, as it did ours in Vietnam, it will have...