Word: placing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparison, though of course by no means consistent throughout-the Vietnamese are French and not American colonials-does have extraordinary validity in the fact that the People's Republic of Vietnam has assigned an important place to our own Declaration of Independence and to the paradigmatic role of George Washington in its own formative rhetoric and constitutional documents. Hanoi's ever more frequent direct appeals to a portion of the American people over the heads of our highly elected officials is grounded partly, of course, in their Marxist reading and no doubt misreading of what they construe as the class...
...first war in any place or time in which a body of draft-age citizens, not only conscientious objectors to all wars (like many of the early Christians in the Roman Empire), have taken upon themselves a right (hitherto exercised only by emperors, kings, divines, and jurists) to make an individual determination as to what constitutes a just tear...
...victory in the ECAC tournament two weeks ago added two wins to the Crimson's Eastern record, including an encouraging 4-3 triumph over Clarkson. to establish the Crimson fairly securely in third place, at least until this weekend...
VIET NAM. The war, which has claimed so many of his sons, leaves the Middle American in a moral perplexity. Most probably agree that the U.S. commitment was a mistake in the first place. Yet they want "an honorable withdrawal." The idea of a U.S. defeat troubles them. Edward Looney, a Brooklyn bus driver, lost a son a year ago; he was killed by a misdirected American shell. "We may find out some day that what we're doing in Viet Nam is wrong," he says, "but until then, it's my country right or wrong...
...former high school friends. A 6 ft. 4 in., three-sport letterman, he told his mother of his feelings just before going to Viet Nam. "We were up practically all night," Mrs. Glenn King recalls. "He had his grave all picked out in Clifton Cemetery. He loved that place and those beautiful red hills...