Word: antipersonnel
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...continuing use of his invention, but he didn't become really outraged about it until June 1972, when he read in the Boston Herald Traveler that a napalm accident in Vietnam had killed or maimed 20 civilians and soldiers. He realized that U.S. soldiers were using napalm as an antipersonnel weapon, not just to burn down buildings. He had never suspected that napalm could be useful to the United States because of the way it clung to people's skin while it burned. A week after he read the article, he wrote Nixon...
...discovered that a jelled fuel burns more efficiently than a free fuel," he says. "I don't think I have to be ashamed of having made that discovery. And I would be the first to suggest that antipersonnel use be outlawed. But how in the world do you make the distinction? Why should the investigator be called on to rule on the uses...
...protection vessel trapped a coastal freighter laden with five tons of arms. The catch was not mammoth as military matériel goes, but it included the kinds of weapons that the Provos have used to murderous effect: 250 submachine guns, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 antitank and antipersonnel mines, 500 lbs. of gelignite, 300 grenades, TNT, explosive fuses and detonators...
CALC is sponsoring another shareholder resolution this spring, calling for an amendment of Honeywell's certificate of incorporation to forbid the development or production of antipersonnel weapons...
...very sad. The place where I used to play on the mountain and the place where I used to bring the cattle and buffalo in the evening to shit them up had become so many bomb craters. And I couldn't anymore because they had been sown with antipersonnel bombs some hadn't vet exploited. Sometimes an animal would kick one and it would blow up... But my father felt for his animals. He slept in the village and tried to plow early in the morning. He was afraid we would all die of starvation in the coming year...