Word: napalm
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...author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example, a G.I. in Saigon undresses a shy local whore only to find that her back has been grotesquely scarred by napalm; in another, a sexual innocent is initiated by a beefy drab with blue-veined thighs and blood on her fingers from the abattoir, where she sorts out tubs of "shivering, gelid, brown and purple guts...
Unfortunately it seems that revulsion against the microscopic death carriers has not been shared equally among all nations in the last two decades. American use of chemicals like napalm and Agent Orange, while not strictly chemical or biological warfare, must bear part of the blame for touching off a renewed use of chemicals in war. Despite the post Vietnam move toward détente that included a U.S. pushed 1974 Biological Weapons Convention outlawing bacteriological means of war which was signed by 111 nations chemical weaponry appears to be on the rise. Use of the outlawed substances has recently been...
...October of 1967, 300 students imprisoned a recruiter from Dow Chemical, a manufacturer of napalm for use in Vietnam, for several hours in Mallinkrodt Hall. When the dust settled, 74 students had been placed on probation, and 171 received official warnings from the administration...
...South Africa the U.S. holds the line for the "free world" through its routine use of torture and assasination of workers, peasants, leftists, students, anyone who opposes U.S. imperialism's Murder Inc. To raise the question of "free speech" in this context is obscene. From the school that developed napalm and Henry Kissinger, comes Caspar Weinberger, an anti-soviet war mongerer who bears direct responsibility for the deaths of thousands in EI Salvador, the invasion of Grenada, the murderous contra raids on Nicaragua, and the bloody mess in Lebanon. Odious though his views may be, we protested Weinberger...
...debate over ROTC began in the spring of 1967. Students protested against the Dow Chemical Co's visits to campus to recruit under graduate's because Dow was a major producer of napalm. Both students and faculty began reassessing the special relationship ROTC enjoyed on campus. Faculty members remember "People had lost confidence in the military because of what they were doing in Vietnam," recalls Everett I. Mendlsohn. Professor of the History of Science. "So people looked again at the comfortable relationships that the military had, the special privileges that it was given...