Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increased the university's endowment to $1 billion. But these were times of extreme discord, and many students paid little attention to Pusey's ambitions. In the fall of 1967 a band of about 250 leftist students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Co., chief manufacturer of the napalm being used in Viet Nam, and held him prisoner for seven hours. Pusey put 74 of them on probation and said their conduct was "simply unacceptable...
...mile-long defensive line and capturing Nacfa. Ethiopian infantry, backed by Soviet-made T-54 and T-55 tanks, tried to blast its way onto the heights commanded by the rebels. One night Ethiopian fighter-bombers pounded rebel positions near Nacfa for five hours with bombs, rockets and napalm. Ethiopian infantrymen, backed by more than a dozen tanks, managed to overrun a rebel position. Before the Ethiopians could move on Nacfa, though, rebel reinforcements moved in from the flanks and drove the Ethiopians back in a long night of fighting...
...jeeps are hidden beneath nearly every acacia tree. Antiaircraft guns are on constant alert. Every rebel building is covered with vines and tree branches; * some permanent structures have 2-ft.-thick stone walls that can withstand barrages of shrapnel. Civilians are regularly lectured on how to wipe burning napalm jelly from their skin...
Many of the same people who called for the Delta Force have backed off calling for massive retaliation on the tiny military sword. The images of napalm engulfing Beirut are less a appealing than those of 50 stone-faced Rangers blasting handful of religious fanatics...
...tore off her clothes and ran down the road screaming in pain, the victim of a misplaced napalm strike by the South Vietnamese air force. The 1972 picture of nine-year-old Kim Phuc (page 26) became a symbol for all the innocent victims of Viet Nam. Last summer, at 21, Kim Phuc traveled to Ludwigshafen, West Germany, for skin grafts on her neck and arms. Back in * Viet Nam she studies at Ho Chi Minh University, but she is still said to be in pain and often too sick to attend classes...