Word: napalm
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From the air, Israeli jets repeatedly pound with rockets, bombs and napalm Arab towns and encampments in Jordan suspected of harboring the fedayeen, the Arab world's "men of sacrifice," who are carrying on a guerrilla war against Israel. Undeterred, the guerrillas cross frequently into Israel to ambush a patrol, plant a mine or leave a plastique explosive in a marketplace. Israeli commandos cross the other way in occasional retaliatory raids against fedayeen bases or positions...
...play called The Time of Your Death, the atmospherics of the place will be grasped immediately. But "Johnny's Bar" is no oasis for gentle daydreamers. It is a foxhole of the color war-full of venomous nightmares, thwarted aspirations and trigger-quick tempers, a place where the napalm of hurt has seared each man's skin. The jukebox rumbles with hard rock; a dope-addled white simp serves drinks when he is not rattling drumsticks along the bar in a syncopated frenzy...
...teach and learn within the University is an absolute moral imperative. It is possible to envision circumstances where this right would come into direct conflict with the prior right of people to defend their lives and their freedom: a lecture on quality control techniques involved in the production of napalm is not, in the context of this country's policies abroad, absolutely entitled to protection against protesting students. But there are no courses being taught in Harvard College whose disruption would demonstrably serve the vital interests of the Vietnamese or of anyone else. This is not to say that...
People are now witnessing with their very eyes the fact of black youth finally given a half of a chance at education and jobs and being able to make exotic formulas for bombs and napalm as well as anyone else. As a result of all of this, I think the present set-to might be the last go-round for white supremacy psychological theory...
...string of hamlets near the busy base and, in the bloody fighting that ensued, a battered little church changed hands several times. The battle did not turn until fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships, taking off little more than a mile away, saturated the Communist positions with rockets and napalm. A few Viet Cong staggered out of the inferno, bleeding and holding their weapons over their heads in surrender, but more than 200 of their comrades lost their lives in the ruins of the hamlets...