Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting around it; the man should be tried as a war criminal in the name of every blind and dead little boy and girl in all of Vietnam and Cambodia. Harvard held Kissinger's chair in the Government Department open for him even as Indochina glowed with burning napalm fire; this University's values had retreated so far into the grey twilight of relativism that the values meant nothing...
...chair for Henry a. Kissinger '50 for four years so he could supervise the Indochina war evidence of an important nexus? What about Bok's on-and-off commitment to a program of training officers for the state's Army? Or, the development in Harvard labs and offices of napalm and a theory of "forced-draft urbanization"--bombing villagers until they moved to cities where Thieu's cops could beat up the ones they didn't like? Was that enough of a nexus with the government to make Harvard an instrumentality of the state...
...first fell back, but then managed to counterattack and drive back into occupied territory. El Quneitra, formerly the Heights' biggest center and since '67 largely a ghost town, changed hands several times. Finally, Israeli armored units, closely supported by Phantoms and Skyhawks whooshing in to splatter napalm on the forward Syrian units, halted the Syrian drive and turned the Arabs back...
...recipe for napalm? "You just take gasoline, sprinkle in some powder, and stir...
Fieser was aware of the 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...