Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accomplishments of his tenure were considerable: the inflation rate fell from 800 percent to 25 percent; the army withdrew from the morass in Lebanon, where Israeli casualties (relative to the population) in three years surpassed America's Vietnam losses in 10, Israel's relations with the U.S. were better than they had been in a decade, perhaps better than they had ever been; and a tone of civility had been restored to political debate in Israel...
...Wales and educated in England, Stringer started at CBS News as a researcher and soon became a producer of documentaries. As head of the CBS Reports unit, he oversaw acclaimed documentaries like the five-part series The Defense of the United States, as well as The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, the program that triggered a much publicized libel suit by General William Westmoreland. (Though Stringer did not have a major hand in the documentary, Westmoreland's lawyers revealed that in an off-the-record talk with a reporter he had voiced doubts about the objectivity of the program...
...Harvard Rules" is named after an 80-pagebooklet released in 1969 that exposed hidden filesof Harvard professors' reported involvement withthe CIA during the Vietnam War, Trumpbour said.The files were discovered when students occupiedUniversity Hall to protest...
...over a year now University officials have been trying to formulate a plan for an alternative to the Vietnam-era Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). It is disappointing that they have realized nothing more profound during this arduous process than that the name of the infamous body must be changed...
Like many Harvard students, Barrett opposed the Vietnam war. As a sophomore he was one of almost 400 students who signed a Crimson advertisement proclaiming that "Our war in Vietnam is unjust and immoral... As long as the United States is involved in this war I will not serve in the armed forces...