Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deeds of Weinberger and Botha and claiming that Harvard University stands above politics. What a sick joke! This in the home of the Kennedy School, where they draw up plans for a nuclear first strike and for the starvation of Central American peasants. This is the place where Vietnam war criminal Henry Kissinger received his training. This is the campus, where napalm was invented...
...case involves a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in South Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, calls the program a "hatchet job" for alleging that he engaged in a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength. According to the 90-min. broadcast, Westmoreland's command, in its reports to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated Viet Cong strength at about 300,000. Many intelligence operatives believed the true figure was closer to 500,000. The program also charges that the Saigon command withheld information about the nearly...
...MILITARY, like the lead in the movie "Stripes," is now perceived to be a "lean, mean fighting machine." Enlistment is up, America has forgotten Vietnam and analysts claim the military's prestige has been restored...
Never mind the record. Since Vietnam, U.S. military forces have only once been successfully deployed--in Grenada in 1983. And even that resort island was deemed to have presented such a challenge that 8612 medals were awarded to the 7000 Army soldiers involved...
...Shipler, now settled in Washington after 11 years abroad which included stints in South Vietnam and Israel, sees more than just darkness in the Soviet Union...