Word: vietnamizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should not push this point too far. There is much impatience with the war, but it is difficult to say of what nature. Is this impatience strong enough to tolerate prolonged campus disruption, to survive backlash from a "peace without honor," and permit the advocates of withdrawal in Vietnam to become the architects of a new society at home? A negative majority has been emerging in opposition to the war. Whether it will take a positive character and elect more Michael Harringtons remains undetermined...
...Faculty-while still in official session yesterday-approved a resolution condemning the Vietnam...
...Faculty voted immediately on the Vietnam resolution, with abstentions being counted as well as ayes and nays...
...approved resolution says that "it is the sense of this Faculty that the war in Vietnam must not continue. While our opinions differ in detail, we agree that the most reasonable plan for peace is the prompt, rapid, and complete withdrawalof all U. S. forces. We support a united and sustained national effort to bring our troops home...
...vote against the Vietnam war would not drag the Faculty into other political discussions. "Would this set a precedent?" Mendelsohn asked in introducing his resolution. "Perhaps. If there were another war with similar effects, members of the Faculty might again rise to oppose...