Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of policy-making in the air war is largely one of conflict between harder and softer-lining elements within the State Department, Pentagon and CIA. Debate has raged over such questions as which villages would be bombed, whether napalm would be used, and how many aircraft would be made available for a given operation. Gradually, as control flowed to the Air Force, as the influence of the CIA grew greater, and as a new American Ambassador came to rely more on air power, the tougher line was taken...
...wide latitudes accorded drama at the present, Father Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is a play in name only. It is a documentary recital of evidence presented at the trial of Berrigan, his brother Philip and seven other Catholic defendants in connection with the napalm burning of draft records at Catonsville, Md. Insofar as it can be classified, Nine falls within the area of the theater of fact. The subjects discussed have particular pertinence for a U.S. audience: the maltreatment of blacks, the exploitation of the poor in Latin American countries, the war in Viet...
...First National City Bank of New York when that bank and nine others extended a $40 million line of credit to South Africa. The women's division of the board sold $400,000 in Dow Chemical stock to protest the "moral irresponsibility" of the company's napalm...
...begining there had been no Committees. The first political cases in recent history-the Dow-Napalm recruiter and the sit-in at the Paine Hall faculty meeting to discuss ROTC in the fall of 1968-were decided by the Ad Board, a body previously concerned with shoplifting and panty-raids. When the Ad Board, in 1968, voted 8 to 7 to require 5 students who had been in Paine Hall to leave Harvard, the faculty overturned this ruling. The Paine Hall 5, the faculty decided, would receive a "suspended" requirement to withdraw. They could stay in school as long...
...Baltimore draft board. Seven months later, with Daniel now enlisted in the cause, the Catonsville Nine struck with their homemade napalm. and newsmen and photographers were on hand to record the burning of Selective Service records...