Word: vietnamizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ptashne accused the Faculty-which passed his resolution condemning the Vietnam war but did not pass a milder resolution supporting the Moratorium until it was considerably modified-of having no understanding of the meaning of the two proposals...
...After the Faculty voted as a whole to condemn the Vietnam War," he added. "perhaps they recognize that it is inconsistent with firing one Faculty member who opposed that war in a concrete...
...that time, the Faculty had first voted down an endorsement of the October 15 moratorium-apparently because the moratorium was too political an issue-and then had turned around to approve a motion calling for a speedy withdrawal of U. S. forces from Vietnam-a political stand if there ever...
...Those backing the withdrawal motion then benefitted from a parliamentary foul-up. Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, ver-bally stumbled as he moved that the Faculty recess to a convocation in effect that they not vote as an official body on Vietnam...
...vote one way or the other, on a highly political issue. At least for the 50 Faculty members who supported the withdrawal resolution in the end, but had not originally wanted to approve it on he floor of the Faculty, the question of the propriety of debating Vietnam policy had been settled. They voted for the resolution and gave it a total of 255 votes-24 more than the combined total of no's and abstentions...