Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cliff found no contradiction in declaring, "I am not a politician. I am a musician with a mission," and then singing several explicitly political songs on such topics as apartheid, Vietnam and nuclear war (this last in a song dedicated onstage to George Bush). But Cliff's polemics were delivered with such good nature and such energy that one could not help but dance. Even in the slow songs, Cliff's energy came streaming through, in the sweat running down his face and in a voice that soared to the rafters...
...former Defense Department official who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, the federal government's secret account of its entrance into the Vietnam War to newspapers, said that he did so partly to relieve guilt over his role in wartime planning, but also to help prevent the war's escalation...
...former Harvard Law School professor served as president of Yale from 1963 until 1977, where he played a vocal role in encouraging student activism and opposing the Vietnam...
...activist that Brewster was most known. He opened Yale facilities to 12,000 student protesters from other colleges in 1970. He also successfully fought attempts to fire Vietnam War protester and draft evaders' champion William Sloane Coffin Jr., the Yale chaplain...
When Graham began her political career, many viewed her as a radical activist, an outsider trying to give her constituency a voice against big developers. She recalls protesting the Vietnam War and aiding radical student groups such as the one that took over University Hall...