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...illegality of what they openly admit to having done. Similar efforts have been made in the past in American courts of law, beginning with the trial of the Catonsville Nine-the priest brothers Philip and Daniel Berrigan and seven other Catholics who burned draft records with home-made napalm at the Baltimore suburb of Catonsville in May of 1968. But something new and different is happening in Rochester's Federal Building, even if the result for the eight defendants is the same as it has been for other defendants in the past-the expected long prison terms...

Author: By Barry Wingard, | Title: The Trial of the Flower City Conspiracy | 12/2/1970 | See Source »

...Toilet Assumption, however, frequently bogs down in jaded theories about Vietnam (napalm and saturation bombing, of course, are simply brutal forms of the Toilet Assumption), discussions about various forms of child-rearing, and theories of the generational combat between old culture and new culture. He unfairly sets up David Riesman (circa 1954) as an apologist for the demented individualism...

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: AmericaThe Pursuit of Loneliness | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...declared Sihanouk. "But it would be pure hypocrisy to assert that the United States is defending the highest interests of the Indochinese people in preventing at all costs regimes like those of Lon Nol and of Nguyen Cao Ky from falling to Communism, using for that purpose bombs and napalm and an apocalyptic destruction of the countries and peoples concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Lon Nol and Sihanouk Speak Out | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...horror stories give me nightmares, and what I see in nightmares are faces. Mostly of kids. One is the face of a kid who is rolling over and over on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning napalm, his flesh turning to charcoal underneath...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Learning From the Vietnamese | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...Inducing substantial migration" means terror bombing, defoliation, napalm, destruction of villages, crop destruction, and assassination. It has nothing in common with movement to cities in classical capitalist development, generated by the development of market and productive forces (although that is violent enough). It has even less in common with a rational allocation of resources for the simultaneous development of city and country. "Urbanization" is used by Huntington as an index of modernization. In fact, it refers to little more than the number of people in cities, without regard for the economic viability of those cities or the conditions...

Author: By David Plotke, | Title: The Theoretical Maintenance Of American Imperialism | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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