Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confronted another vexing moral issue--one there wasn't even a building occupation about, although 2000 students did vote to strike about it a couple of hours before Bok's statement came out. "Many people believe that the United States is engaging in inhuman acts in bombing North Vietnam," Bok said squarely. With that vexation out of the way, Bok went on to reject PALC's demand for divestiture. Divesting "would have been easy and gained an obvious popularity in some quarters," Bok explained, but Harvard had nevertheless courageously decided "not to turn away from the problems of black Angolans...
...occasion of the remembrance organized this year by the Kent State Indochina Peace Campaign to protest the American war of aggression in Cambodia and South Vietnam and the crimes of the Nixon administration at Kent State and Jackson State--as well as at the Watergate--I would like once more to extend to the parents and friends of the four Kent State University students and to American people and students our militant solidarity, our muted and sorrowful condolences, and our profound and sincerest gratitude for their act of justice and support they gave the Cambodian people's just struggle...
From January 27, 1973, to August 15, 1973, for six and a half months after the signing of the Paris peace agreement on Vietnam, American planes blew up, bombed, killed, massacred, razed, leveled, in a word undertook systematic genocide against the Cambodian people. The intensity of the bombing was carried further than ever before during the American war of aggression in Indochina or in the whole history...
...American invasion of Cuba to the press. "Deliberately, because he wanted the operation to fail!" Nixon cries. "And he admitted it! Admitted it! This happens all the time. Well, you can follow these characters to their Gethsemane." "Of course, the stuff was involved with the [expletive deleted] Vietnam war," he concedes wearily, later that day. "I talked with some kid and he said I don't think that anybody incidentally would care about anybody infiltrating the peace movement that was demonstrating against the President, particularly on the war in Vietnam," he adds, a ray of hope breaking through his gloom...
...submitted to the sound judgment of the common man. The reconquest of power starts with the recognition that expert knowledge blinds the secretive bureaucrat to the obvious way of dissolving the energy crisis, just as it has blinded him to recognize the obvious solution to the war in Vietnam." The rich must achieve technological maturity by pursuing "the road to liberation from affluence" and the poor must take "the road of liberation from dependence." However, he never satisfactorily explains just where men and women in 1974 can pick up these euphonious routes to earthly salvation. Nor does he come...