Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John H. Knowles of the Massachusetts General Hospital drew the largest applause of the evening when he said, "We can best treat the wounds of the people of Vietnam by not inflicting them in the first place." Knowles recently visited Vietnam as a member of the Agency for International Development's inspection team...
Having FBI agents paying visits to a university campus is an ugly business. The fact that the agents are acting within their legal rights--for these students allegedly violated a federal law--makes it no less ugly. It serves to remind us that the war in Vietnam and the recalcitrance of the Johnson Administration have led many students to the desperation point...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '56 (D-Mass.) called last night for a "reordering of our priorities" in South Vietnam...
...Nowhere has our failure been more clear than in the civilian medical area," said Kennedy, who is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on refugees. He called upon the private medical sector in this country and abroad to send "surgical teams" to face the crisis in Vietnam. The federal government should appropriate funds for additional hospital facilities and for a "massive innoculation and immunization program," he said...
Thirty Harvard teaching fellows presented the group with a petition supporting the "aims and actions" of the sit-in. "It is a violation of the principles of the University to lend its facilities to any industries or organizations committing war crimes in Vietnam," the petition read. "For us not to be here would violate our own responsibilities as teachers." All 30 of the teaching fellows also turned in their bursar's cards...