Word: viets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat was discounted by U.S. authorities in Saigon and by most South Vietnamese politicians. The greatest restraining influence against a coup is the conviction in Saigon that the Americans would wash their hands of the commitment in Viet Nam if the politicians and generals undercut the country's fragile stability by staging another government overthrow...
...emotional impact on the nation, the Viet Nam war does not provoke the most widespread dissatisfaction with President Nixon's policies. Almost to a man, U.S. citizens feel frustrated by the persistence of inflation and its pervasive effects-high prices, oppressive interest rates and a severe scarcity of credit. Of those who were questioned in the latest Louis Harris poll, published last week, 51% gave Nixon a negative rating on Viet Nam; an overwhelming 79% disapproved of his handling of inflation...
...Year of the Pig is a new kind of chiller movie. Audiences sit in helpless frustration watching scenes of unreeling historical horror. Producer-Director Emile de Antonio (Point of Order) has taken his ghoulish episodes from newsreels made in and about Viet Nam over the past three decades. The result is a slanted but devastating account of the spiraling American involvement in Southeast Asia...
...brass have their day, too, with Curtis Le May announcing, "The world is watching us in Viet Nam to see if we put our money where our mouth is," and Colonel George S. Patton III, with an aw-shucks grin, beaming into the camera and describing ARVN enthusiastically as a "bloody good bunch of killers...
Some negotiations with the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese would be necessary to carry out the plan he advocates, Calkins noted. Since the United States must retain a position from which to negotiate, it cannot declare that it intends to withdraw unconditionally from Vietnam, he added...