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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | April 24, 2000 issue

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The author says that at the end of April people will have arrived at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, when the last fugitives clambered into helicopters at the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon. Not so long thereafter, in part as a tactic to divide and co-opt the antiwar left, former U.S. President Richard Nixon gave environmentalists a presidential imprimatur by founding the U.S. Environment Protection Agency. For years the antiwar left was told to be embarrassed about the sixties, put through re-education rites designed to elicit the confession that "excesses" were committed, mistakes made.

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VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; ANNIVERSARIES; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; ENVIRONMENTALISM; POLITICAL activists; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; NIXON, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; PEACE movements
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