" The Dude was also partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline ( now a member of the faculty at USC's School of Cinematic Arts ), a Vietnam War veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a little rug that " tied the room together.

In 1969, Skaggs tied a 50-foot bra to the front of the U. S. Treasury building on Wall Street, organized a Hells Angels ' wedding procession through the Lower East Side, and made a grotesque Statues of Liberty on 4th of July, again to protest against the Vietnam War.

In 2004 he tied for 2nd-3rd with Eugenio Torre in the SEA Games in Vietnam.

In his acceptance speech he deplored the state of the union: " When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in Vietnam with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented racial violence, when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home, then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

In keeping with the times, much of anthropology became politicized through the Algerian War of Independence and opposition to the Vietnam War ; Marxism became an increasingly popular theoretical approach in the discipline.

Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).

The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.

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* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.

The Soviets went on to develop an improved air-droppable assault gun, the ASU-85, which served through the 1980s, while their SU-100 remained in service with Communist countries, including Vietnam and Cuba, years after WW2.

Vietnam estimates 400, 000 people were killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand.

By 1971, 12 percent of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals, at an average concentration of 13 times the recommended USDA application rate for domestic use.

By 1971, 12 percent of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals, at an average concentration of 13 times the recommended USDA application rate for domestic use.

The Vietnam Red Cross reported as many as 3 million Vietnamese people have been affected by Agent Orange, including at least 150, 000 children born with birth defects.

He toured Vietnam with the USO, entertaining troops along with Art Buchwald and George Plimpton.

Angry, impatient and short-tempered, Buzzcut is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character.

The need to drop conventional bombs remained in conflicts with a non-nuclear powers, such as the Vietnam War or Malayan Emergency.

Another important use of aircraft came with the development of the helicopter, which first became heavily used during the Vietnam War, and still continues to be widely used today to transport and augment ground forces.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

Researchers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam are currently working on delayed-ripening papaya in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and Zeneca.

The era of large public protest in Berkeley waned considerably with the end of the Vietnam War in 1974.

In the 1960s, the ACLU continued its decades-long effort to enforce separation of church and state, and it also defended several anti-war activists during the Vietnam War who burnt draft cards or wore armbands.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

He identified himself as a political independent although he held conservative opinions on several issues, including the Vietnam War ( he once wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. to defend the Johnson Administration's military policy ).

While historically presidents initiated the process for going to war, critics have charged that there have been several conflicts in which presidents did not get official declarations, including Theodore Roosevelt's military move into Panama in 1903, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasions of Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1990.

Clark originally joined the Navy during the Vietnam War ( as John Terrence Kelly ) and became a Navy SEAL who participated in several special operations, one of which was the rescue of a naval aviator shot down over North Vietnam.

The case involved several students who were punished for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.

The government (), the main executive state power of Vietnam, is headed by the prime minister, who has several deputy prime ministers and several ministers in charge of particular activities.

Although exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, it is safe to say that several million people served in the South Vietnamese armed forces, the vast majority of them in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN )— between 1956 and 1975.

Wuxia stories have become a new genre of writing within Chinese society and have remained popular in several countries with significant Chinese-speaking communities, such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia.

Although the Soviet Union and the United States never directly entered military conflict with each other, several proxy wars, such as the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) and the Vietnam War ( 1957 – 1975 ), were waged as the United States implemented its worldwide " containment " policy against communism.

** The first official large unit action of the Vietnam War took place when two companies of the ARVN 23d Division were ambushed by a well-organized Vietcong force of several hundred identified as the " 2d Liberation Battalion ".

In addition, several hundred Vietnam War protesters in Berkeley, California, march to the Draft Board again to burn 19 more cards.

Agnew was chosen to make several powerful speeches in which he spoke out against anti-war protesters and media portrayal of the Vietnam War, labeling them " Un-American ".

They included the Bay of Pigs Invasion involving Cuba, the Vietnam War, the Portuguese Colonial War, the Colombian Civil War which the U. S. assisted with short-lived counter-guerrilla campaigns, as well as domestic issues such as the Civil Rights Movement and several influential political assassinations.

After Diệm's assassination, South Vietnam was unable to establish a stable government and numerous coups took place during the first several years after his death.

In South Korea and Taiwan, high male sex ratios and declining birth rates over several decades ago have led to cross-cultural marriage between local men and foreign women from countries such as mainland China, Vietnam and the Philippines.

In addition, the several independent kingdoms in modern Cambodia, Laos, and southern Vietnam all became Wu vassals as well.

He advised Humphrey to break with several of President Johnson's policies, especially concerning Vietnam, the Middle East, and condominium with the Soviet Union.

* USS Newport News ( CA-148 ) a heavy cruiser that served in the Atlantic Fleet and also in several deployments during the Vietnam War

Mangrove plantations in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and India host several commercially important species of fishes and crustaceans.

In 1406, The Yongle Emperor responded to several formal petitions from members of the ( now deposed ) Trần Dynasty, however on arrival to Vietnam, both the Tran prince and the accompanying Chinese ambassador were ambushed and killed.

But his assassination, followed by the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution, ended any chance for the next several years.