Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the Vietnam War, the patriotic executive spent several million dollars in a failed attempt to airlift 75 tons of food and Christmas presents to prisoners of war in South Vietnam. The White House thanked him anyway...
...FIRST CREATED during Harvard demonstrations against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Students took over University Hall several times and sponsored class boycotts during an era when student protests rocked U.S., European and Latin American campuses...
Rambo seems to have perfectly articulated the nation's mood with regard to Viet Nam. "In general, the public feels that Viet Nam was a tragedy, an experience they don't want to repeat," says Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. "But at the same time, there's an attempt to find some redeeming aspects in it. Movies can turn a defeat into victory; you can achieve in fantasy what you didn't achieve in reality." Says Arthur Egendorf, a clinical psychologist and author of Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam: "Rambo is an effort...
...protests of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in the late '60s and early '70s, and in protests through 1976 about discrimination in tenure and admissions, wearing armbands over flowing Commencement gowns proved a popular tactic among activists...
...ISSUE OF responsibility lies at the core of another aspect of the divestment movement at Harvard: discipline. The Faculty has reconstituted a Vietnam-era disciplinary body--the student-faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--to punish some of the 200 students involved in an April sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards and a blockade of a South African diplomat in a Lowell House room...