Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equality of such service would be unprecedented. A true national service, including women and physically handicapped young people, would be more fair than any past draft. Inequities of race, such as those that occurred in Vietnam, and class, such as are occurring now, could both be avoided. This democratic "sharing of the burden" alone should be enough to cause a careful consideration of the program...
Critics began popping up alongside college radicals who opposed U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Jabbing commodity fetishism and impersonal TV advertisements, Warhol painted goods larger than life to parody their vaulted importance in the minds of a commercial public...
...intrigued by the idea of a pro athlete settling in Cambridge," said Rosenberg. "I'm old enough to remember him at UCLA and with the Trail Blazers. I knew he was out-spoken about the Vietnam War. He's an untraditional athlete...
What's left is a comedy, a spoof of films about do-gooder killers a la Rambo, 007, and Dirty Harry. Remo, played by Fred Ward, has a little bit of all these guys. He belongs to a secret organization, is a Vietnam vet, and was once a tough...
...first time someone tested the constitutionality of America's peacetime military draft was during the undeclared war in Vietnam. The courts at that time ruled that a draft when the nation was at peace was constitutional. Without that ruling America's involvement in Indochina would have been very limited...