Word: vietniks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled a November lecture at Cornell University because of "conflicts of schedule" than a Vietnik coed fired off a letter to the Cornell Daily Sun charging that the Secretary was plain afraid of all the antiwar pickets his appearance would attract. Cornell Sophomore Richard Rusk sent the Sun a sonly note of his own. "I can assure you that the reasons for his cancellation are legitimate," wrote Richard. "Being on more intimate terms with Mr. Rusk, I think it is possible that the Secretary might muster up his courage and run the gauntlet...
...client's documents!" It never recovered from that tone-setter. From then until adjournment at week's end, the hearing was marked by insults to the committee, vain posturings, ejections by force, arrests and an often unholy din from the audience of 400, many of them hirsute Vietnik types. For sheer summer madness, it set a standard that, hopefully, Washington will be hard put to duplicate...
...coldblooded imperialist aggression," "depraved insanity" and, in what was doubtless intended as the most formidable indictment of all, "moral degeneracy with no bottom." Then, contending that the party had "fought its way out of political isolation," he commanded the comrades to unite in a popular front with Vietnik and Negro groups to achieve "left unity...
...insisted that they be followed. He urged Oakland city officials to issue parade permits to students demonstrating against the Viet Nam war; but after the protesters erected a sign board larger than the rules permitted, he ordered it torn down. Similarly, Communist Bettina Aptheker, an F.S.M. leader, and two Vietnik friends last February held two rallies in a week on Sproul Hall steps instead of the regulation one-and then were suspended from leading student activities. After Heyns expelled one girl who objected to the suspension, Bettina, of all people, meekly signed an oath of allegiance to the regulations...
...added: "That goes double for doing it in time of war and in a fashion that lends support and aid and comfort to our enemies. I don't care whether the American is a misguided Vietnik or chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." In fact, Goldwater continued, Fulbright's name "lends a phony official stature to his expressions of guilt that his country is militarily powerful enough to defend freedom...