Word: vietnamizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRISIS is not just the draft for the war in Vietnam, though that is the most immediate symbol of it for those of us who "have it so good." The crisis is finding a way to live. It is a crisis faced by Harvard seniors, and by high school seniors in a ghetto who can't go to college. Do I fight for my country? Do I work for it? Do I ignore it? Do I try to change it? Do I work against it? Do I proceed alone, or share with others, and how many others? Will ever stop...
...ambitious birth control program-using such slogans as "Grow More Food, Breed Fewer Children"-has reduced the birth rate from 3.3% to 2.5%, self-sufficiency in food will be achieved this year. Vastly increased grain harvests have been gathered in the Philippines, Ceylon, Turkey and Mexico. In South Vietnam, the IR8 rice strain (TIME, June 14) has been so successful that the Viet Cong have sought to discredit it by telling peasants that it causes cancer and leprosy. Indeed, most developing countries-but not including China, because of its self-imposed, xenophobic political isolationism-are benefiting, or about to benefit...
Mumford was among the first scholars in the United States to speak out against the war in Vietnam. He wrote Johnson an open letter condemning the escalation of the war two days after Johnson started bombing the North in February, 1965. Then, in May, 1965, in his last speech as President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he again struck out against Johnson's policies on the war. "I was doing something that was reprehensible in a conventional sense," he recalls, "but I felt the issue had to be thrust forward." For his efforts, he was physically threatened...
...confessions, the log of the Pueblo itself reportedly shows that the ship was violating North Korean territorial waters. But in any case, the Pueblo was a spy ship, and we know from history what aggressive and violent uses the U.S. makes of the "intelligence" it gathers about small nations: Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala...
...immediate and unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam...