Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal subsidies for on-the-job training programs (OJT), especially since the cutbacks due to the Vietnam War, do not fill the training gap. Gopen points out that there are now only 380 individual contracts for OJT available...
...Tainted" money--research money from some sinister branch of the military or intelligence--has assumed a huge importance lately. Foremost in the minds of those who want to establish a joint committee to investigate University complicity in the war in Vietnam are the questions: How many Harvard faculty members have been doing research with this "tainted" money? And, are they helping to prosecute the war with their research...
...University involvements with military activities. Two or three weeks ago in Detroit I was asked to comment on prospective efforts to obstruct physically the Willow Run laboratories operated on contract by the University of Michigan and engaged, I am told, on development of highly secret materiel for use in Vietnam. I urged not alone the futility but the adverse public effects of such action; I said that a better remedy lay against the Faculty members who ran this enterprise. Students might organize to avoid their classes, i.e., peacefully to boycott them. Last Monday evening at the meeting in the Hilles...
...members of the Harvard community will be aware, I am not indifferent to the Vietnam war. I regard it as an appalling tragedy; to no other matter of my adult life have I devoted more effort than to opposing the war. But I would be profoundly and also greatly embarrassed were anyone to take my remarks at Radcliffe as an invitation to any form of opposition to the participants of individual Faculty members, on a public or confidential basis, in government activities. Needless to say, none of this impairs in any way my promise at the Radcliffe meeting to work...
This was the way Vietnam began, and Che argues that 'Two, Three, Many Vietnams" all over Latin America would place an unacceptable strain on U.S. resources and determination...