Word: anti-personnel
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...Sunday morning, December 26, when the planes came. Four U.S. jet fighter-bombers dived through the thick cloud cover and dropped eight demolition bombs and four new model anti-personnel bombs on the Thanh Hoa Hospital. According to the hospital's vice-director, Vo Dinh Chi, two of the buildings were completely destroyed and three others damaged. Nine people were killed, 11 others were wounded...
...these weapons creates problems for doctors treating war victims. Signer said, such as the difficulty in removing plastic pellets from people hit by anti-personnel bombs. He also accused the U.S. of using medical aid as a political weapon, frequently granted or denied to further American interests...
...speakers effectively. Obstructors deny their own "human worth," to use the least ridiculous phrase left when they deny such worth in opponents. And having put a mental X across the enemy faces one might as well, for efficiency, toss in an anti-personal grenade (though Etymology, a certain old bleeding-heart professor-emeritus, might whimper that "anti-personnel" is "substantially equivalent" to "in-human...
...major problem will be plastic surgery to overcome war wounds induced by anti-personnel bombs and napalm. Apparently a vast quantity of anti-personnel weapons have been used, mainly pellet bombs, and the disfiguration will be difficult to take care of. For this they may ask for some outside help...
...only recently begun to counterattack. Who went South to integrate Mississippi? he asks. Who supported the Warren Court? Urban planning? Pollution control? Open housing? But whenever the liberal begins to bolster his case, along comes some damaging new weapon to support the radical credo. The latest is a destructive anti-personnel device entitled The Liberation of L.B. Jones...