Word: vietnamizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue, he said, "The current notion that the military-industrial complex is an evil thing does not correspond to reality." Several times during the meeting he reiterated his position that the current danger to the University was from those within the University who are upset about the war in Vietnam. The SDS demonstration at the beginning of the SFAC meeting was, he said, typical of this threat...
Little Murders, which is the work of cartoonist Jules Feiffer, is comedy drenched in blood. When I saw the original production, I loved it. But now I realized that it had to fail. It was too early--before public opinion revolted against the stupidity of Vietnam, before two back-to-back assassinations taught us the real meaning of murder...
...CARRY out their second goal, which is that of keeping the United States bogged down in the Vietnam war as long as possible so that it can go on extending its material and diplomatic support, the South Vietnamese government resorts to a wide variety of tricks. One of the tricks is to give the impression that the Saigon government itself is shaping up, and that the United States should help them in this effort instead of forcing them to make a deal with the other side since according to them, this would only lead to an eventual communist take-over...
...recent Vietnamese study reveals that in the Cape St. Jacques area of South Vietnam, most of the Vietnamese soldiers' wives have become bar-girls and prostitutes for the Americans, in order to feed themselves. But this does not really help their financial situation much since the GI's only have a limited amount of spending money, and since living expenses in South Vietnam are as high as those in this country, if not to say higher. Daily newspapers from Saigon are full of stories about Vietnamese soldiers robbing and committing suicide either because their wives are sleeping with Americans...
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the question now is whether the Unites States wants to have peace in Vietnam or not. And let me remind those who think that peace can come with the continued American support of the present South Vietnamese government, that this support has already made many who would otherwise have been friendly, if no to say helpful to the United States, bitterly anti-American. Recently, professor Ly Chanh Trung of the University of Saigon, an ardent Catholic intellectual, was impelled to say the following words in a speech entitled "Why Do I Want Peace" delivered before...