Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Memorial. The 493.4-ft., $4 million-plus structure, inscribed with the names of the 58,022 Americans who died or were declared missing in the Southeast Asian war, was the result of a five-year fund-raising drive led by Jan Scruggs, an ex-infantry corporal who founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. But the wall's stark, understated design displeased many veterans. As a result, the veterans' organization decided to install a more traditional artwork near by. The new statue, 100 ft. from the wall, suggests soldiers scanning the granite wall for the names of fallen comrades...
...crisp, gray suit and sporting a small red-and-white striped Viet Nam service ribbon, the ramrod-straight William Westmoreland, 70, former commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, recounted his 36 years of military service. Then he launched into a rebuttal of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, the 1982 CBS documentary that is at issue in the trial...
...that if Reagan were re-elected, Bob Hope would be entertaining our boys in Managua by Christmas. However, even the Reagan administration probably knows better than to seriously consider a Grenada style invasion in Nicaragua. The problem is not that we are on the verge of a Latin American Vietnam, but rather that our own administration seems determined to repeat some of history's mistakes...
...Legend has it, a small group of students took over the Law School library one night in 1969, to protest not the Vietnam War on any such topic, but the school's grading system...
...country soon recognized that reducing the 22 percent poverty rate would require more than the billion dollars we originally devoted to the problem during the Great Society's first year. As Europe and Japan finally rebuilt their own wartorn economies, and as Vietnam drained some of the United States' own resources, the economic pie didn't expand nearly as rapidly as before. Allowing Blacks to eat at the same lunch counter in Kresge's just wasn't enough. The summer riots told us that social equality was too difficult to achieve, so we refused to bus our children. Ecology...