Word: vietnamizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gerontocratic order is undermined by a feeling that the older generation has disgraced itself (deauthorization). The scandal of racial discrimination, for example, deauthorized the older generation in the early sixties and brought into existence the New Left. The debacle in Vietnam, I suspect, more significantly enforced deauthorization in every region of the country...
...speeches and in private talks, Calkins has said that the Army should get out of Vietnam. But he also says that the Corporation will not take a formal stand against the war; and it was his Corporation that SDS accused of distorting the Faculty's ROTC resolution...
Those of us who are concerned, not with the curricular status of ROTC, but with its use as an agent of oppression in Vietnam and elsewhere, wish to know the simple fact: "Will the United States Army be using the campus to train army officers...
Today, in Vietnam, we are already in World War III. Why all these wars, all this killing and being killed, and the indescribable suffering brought to millions of human beings? And is not the role of the ROTC "to keep the past upon its throne...
...there be any meaningful comparison, in magnitude and criminality, between the unlawful acts committed by the rebels in the ghettoes, on the campuses, on the city streets on the one side, and the deeds perpetrated by the forces of order in Vietnam, in Bolivia, in Indonesia, in Guatemala, on the other? Can one meaningfully call it an offense when demonstrators disrupt the business of the university, the draft board, the supermarket, the flow of traffic, to protest against the far more efficient disruption of the business of life of untold numbers of human beings by the armed forces...