Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...notion has been disproved on the Vietnam battlefield," Maj. Beauregard Brown, a black, told me in Saigon in 1967, "that Negroes can't produce the same as white soldiers. Given the same training and support, the Negro has shown that he can do the job just as good as anyone else...
...black soldiers I talked with in 1967. "Negroes should be used in this war because the United States consists of Negroes and whites," Johnny E.Lawrence of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., told me then. "If King had any pride in his race, he ought to do what he can to support us." Said James H. Scott of Miami: "I don't think King and Carmichael are right. They live in a free country and somebody...
...white student movement against the war drew surprising support from black troops. Most black students have ignored the war issue, pressing instead for separate curriculums and housing while protesting police as-assaults on blacks. But 60 per cent of the black enlisted men and 50 per cent of the black officers agreed that the right to make the war protests should be protected; 14 per cent of the enlisted and 12 per cent of the officers expressed outright support for the campus protesters...
They are not interested in white student support. ("Freak looking filthy white rodents are running around spreading new kinds of venereal diseases/ Talking about we love everybody/ we love everybody.") And realistically speaking, what could they gain from the backing of a group more divided, and more impotent than they...
...series of confidential memoranda circulated within Harvard by officials of the Development Advisory Service (DAS) indicates that an important purpose of the DAS' economic work in Indonesia has been to provide political support for the military, Western-oriented regime of General Suharto...