Word: viets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese who have fought against us are not machines. Indeed. it seems likely that a Viet Cong soldier setting out to battle is no more anxious to die than an American. The Vietnamese who have fought against the overwhelming power of the United States for the past four-and-a-half years are not of a different species from ours. Like people anywhere. the Vietnamese feel pain, have love affairs, like to dance, and carry pictures of their families in their wallets. The bravery and devotion of these people can't be explained by racial stereotypes: to understand why they...
...bulletin was obtained by Gordon Hall, a professional opponent of extremist groups quoted in the Boston Globe as saying of Camejo, "It is one thing to oppose the war. It's another thing to march with Viet Cong Flags...
...John Kirklin, former chief of surgery at the Mayo Clinic and now chief of surgery at the medical college; Dr. T. Joseph Reeves, chief of medicine at the college and a renowned cardiologist; and Dr. Thomas W. Sheehy, formerly a medical adviser for the U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, now director of MIST and professor of medicine at the college. They take on the extra duty without pay, have already dealt with scores of cases ranging from heart blocks to overdoses of pills...
...Columbus. Indians, watching his landing, groaned, "There goes the neighborhood." Deloria cites bumper-sticker slogans: "God is Red" and "We Shall Overrun." There are other contemporary jokes, like the one about a poll which disclosed that while only 15% of the Indians wanted U.S. forces to get out of Viet Nam, 85% wanted U.S. forces to get out of America. The source of Indian humor, Deloria makes clear, is a kind of desperation that makes for grim laughter: "If they bring that War on Poverty to our reservation, they'll know they've been in a fight...
...River in a small waterfront house in Windsor's quietly affluent Riverside section, Joyce Carol Gates and her husband are sheltered from the city's clang and danger. Living in Canada, the Smiths remain almost entirely American in their concerns. Joyce Carol-though she is against the Viet Nam war -has little sympathy with the kind of radical who, she feels, confuses personal frustrations with public problems. A minor character in her latest novel defines the type perfectly. She has small patience, too, with intellectuals who find her work too full of social and economic themes. "The greatest...