Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir/The problem of "Empty Pockets. . ."can be solved by a simple reordering of priorities: schools before bombers, houses before missiles, hospitals before napalm. The multibillion-dol-lar defense budget is what's killing us. With defense like this, who needs enemies...
...Lierop compared the Portuguese a colonial efforts in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea to the American tactics in Southeast Asia. He cited the Portuguese reliance on air war, the used of napalm and anti-personnel bombs, and the use of helicopters in search-and-destroy operations...
...they abolished the distinction between "civilized" and "non-civilized" Angolans, and announced some further reforms in their labor codes. Bolstered with American arms, capital investment and dollar exchange from multinational corporations, and American economic credits. Portugese colonialism entered the twentieth century, with its own strategic hamlets programs, and napalm, and defoliants...
...jungle, it was easy to sympathize. We marched as a company for an hour, then divided into three platoons. After two miles, the jungle gave way to incredibly thick undergrowth-not high enough to block out the sun and too dense to move through, either quickly or silently. Napalm strikes had killed all the tall trees whose shade once kept down the growth on the jungle floor...
...transcripts of the trial, and (with a re-write job by Saul Levitt) Michael Butler's new production is very simply a competent condensation of the events of the trial of those nine Catholic radicals who raided the draft board of small-town Catonsville, Maryland and used home-made napalm to destroy 378 folders from the 1-A file...