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...dispossess working people (at an enormous profit). Harvard allows military recruiters free run of the campus, and specifically, the three ROTC programs, dating back to 1916, are among the oldest in the country. Harvard also gets government research contracts for a variety of purposes (Louis Fieser, the inventor of napalm, is a professor at Harvard), not to mention the fact that it permits CIA agents to take graduate courses at the East Asian Research Center--fortunately, the CIA men are only interested in getting inculcated with the values of a "liberal education"! Harvard also allows recruiters from various corporations...
...students to pursue military preparation as one extra-curricular activity among others: and while I recognize the moral fervor of those who want, because of Vietnam, to expel ROTC altogether, I find the connection between ROTC, America's armed forces and Vietnam far more complex than that between Dow, napalm and Vietnam; and I do find the parallel between moral opposition to Nazism and moral opposition to ROTC, or to America's armed forces, or to American foreign policy (which I have not been known to celebrate) unconvincing, to say the least. Nor do I believe that one can legislate...
...throughout the Middle East and those abroad; the wife of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent $4,500. In the coffee bars of Beirut, young Arabs peddle El Fatah stamps, to be used like Christmas seals, bearing a picture of a burned child and the words "Shalom and Napalm"-a reference to the use of napalm by Israelis in last August's reprisal raid on the Jordanian town of Salt. Other stamps show a guerrilla fighter, a monument to martyrs or Jerusalem, with the slogan: "Palestinian Resistance." The money raised, of course, goes to buy bullets...
Filled with napalm and gasoline...
...napalm and gasoline of the war over, Dickey enrolled at Vanderbilt to study philosophy and English. After teaching English at Rice and the University of Florida, he became an advertising copywriter in New York, then in Atlanta. In August 1961, to devote himself to poetry, he quit his job and supported his wife and two sons on small family savings and welfare checks. Six months later, they left for a year in Europe, courtesy of a $5,000 Guggenheim fellowship. Temporary terms as poet-in-residence at Reed, San Fernando Valley State and Wisconsin, and as successor to Stephen Spender...