Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student body will cause a change in Harvard's position. As Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without a struggle," a truth attested to not only by the general history of popular movements in our nation, from the Abolitionists to the Civil Rights movement to the movement against the Vietnam War to the women's movement, but from the specific experience of students at Harvard in fighting for divestment...
...October 14, 1970, an explosion ripped through the attic of a stately brick building on Divinity Ave. Activists protecting the war in Vietnam had planted a tomb in Henry A. Kissinger's former office at the Center for International Affairs, housed in the Harvard Semitic Museum...
Chomsky, who spoke as part of a week-long series of events organized by the Committee on Central America, compared U.S. in volvement in Nicaragua and Vietnam. Before getting heavily into the Indochina war in 1965, protest was virtually non existent--in sharp contrast to widespread criticism of U.S. support for anti-government rebels in Marxist-led Nicaragua...
...claimed victory. CBS had spent several million dollars defending itself, conducted an internal investigation that uncovered substantial violations of its own procedures, and endured widespread critical judgment that its treatment of Westmoreland had been one- sided. But Sauter asserted that the Jan. 23, 1982, documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, had been vindicated. Said he: "Nothing has surfaced in the discovery and trial process now concluded that in any way diminishes our conviction that the program was fair and accurate." As if to underscore that feeling of triumph, CBS staffers had held a party in a hotel room...
Those who argue that Harvard cannot be a powerful force for change might recall the catalyzing effect of the academic and student community's opposition to the Vietnam war. And those who would blithely defer to the fade at government for leadership in the fight against apartheid may ask themselves why international figures like Nobel Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Jesse L., Jackson came to Harvard to condemn investment in South Africa. Dante wrote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in a time of moral crisis. In South Africa...