Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department official grumbled, 'When is Israel going to learn that it cannot shoot its way to peace?'" Ah! When is the U.S. going to learn that we cannot shoot our way to peace in Viet Nam? Considering our Government's reaction to a small war 10,000 miles away, one shudders to think of what our reaction would be if we found ourselves in Israel's position. Perhaps this unnamed official should be put in charge of our Viet Nam policy...
...your article "Black Power in Viet Nam" [Sept. 19], you say that many of the blacks in Viet Nam regard the war as "white man's folly." This is not a white man's war; it is a no man's war. There should be no Americans, black, white or otherwise, in Viet Nam. The brown Vietnamese should fight for themselves...
President Nixon's eight-month period of relative immunity from criticism on the Viet Nam war was over. The opponents of the war came out spoiling for a fight. A freshman Republican Senator, New York's conservative-turned-liberal, Charles Goodell, even had the temerity to introduce legislation asking the Congress to take the unheard-of step of cutting off all funds for U.S. participation in the war as of December 1, 1970. Of course, there is virtually no chance for his measure to become...
...proposal served to reopen debate on the war, largely muted since Nixon took office...
Arkansas Senator J. W. Fulbright seized on Goodell's initiative, which he called "ingenious," to announce that he will resume war hearings in his Foreign Relations Committee. Two dozen Democratic Senators and Representatives tried to make the war a sharply partisan issue for the first time. They pledged their support of students who are planning a national Moratorium Day of antiwar protest...