Word: anti-personnel
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...urgently appeal to the world community, through the United Nations, to condemn, in view of their devastating effects on our people, the use of chemical warfare, napalm, and anti-personnel bombs. Finally, to prevent the ultimate crime against mankind, we ask the General Assembly to forbid the use of nuclear weapons by any party in this conflict...
...howitzer shells exploded in their midst. The gunners fired off 575 rounds during the battle, blistering the paint on the lone gun's barrel. Helicopter gunships laced the Viet Cong from above with their mini-guns, and Air Force jets made one screaming run after another, dropping anti-personnel bombs. The few Viet Cong who survived the lethal gauntlet to reach the strip's west side were caught in a murderous crossfire between the Special Forces camp and the subsector compound. Again, more than 100 Viet Cong died...
With the blessings of California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, a "Hiroshima Peace Torch" began a cross-country migration from San Francisco to Washington. Relay runners will carry the torch, which was ignited last month in Japan and carries fragments of U.S. anti-personnel bombs in its butt...
...drop can be traced to a variety of causes. With more planes in the air, advance formations of fighter-bombers are free to go in over the target ahead of the primary mission, spraying enemy antiaircraft gunners with anti-personnel CBUs-canisters full of hundreds of bits of deadly metal shards...
...jets flew 117 sorties over roiling Suoi Tre, bombing the attackers with explosives, napalm and anti-personnel bomblets. Two distant artillery batteries walked more than 2,000 shells through the enemy's ranks, some striking as close as 100 ft. to the shrunken U.S. perimeter. A big Chinook chopper swept through smoke and fire to drop slings of fresh ammunition. But the G.I.s were down to their last bullets, and in some bunkers to a single grenade. Eleven of the batteries' 18 howitzers lay silenced by enemy fire; artillerymen loaded the remaining guns while kneeling amid burning shells...