Word: napalm
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...they did not have a prayer. Defense Lawyer William Kunstler conceded immediately that the nine, who included three former missionaries, a nurse, an artist and two priests, had broken the law by taking 378 files from Draft Board 33 in suburban Catonsville last May and burning them with homemade napalm...
Waves of Mirage, Mystère and Skyhawk fighters swooped in on Salt, plastering the El Fatah headquarters with rockets and napalm, strafing other suspected El Fatah installations near by and setting asphalt blacktop boiling on roads for miles around. Citrus fruit sizzled on branches in neighboring orchards. When the planes let up briefly, the people of Salt streamed out to survey the damage and were hit by the second wave of planes that caught ambulances, taxis and a television mobile unit from Amman parked out in the open. Two dozen people sought shelter in a culvert, but an Israeli...
...Committee was originally set up following an irregular and bitter demonstration by students in October protesting the recruiting activities at Harvard of an officer of the Dow Chemical Company, which makes napalm. The disruption and confusion that accompanied that incident made it clear that there was an urgent need for discussion between students and the University Establishment on political issues related to the University...
...reasons that the university became the target are not too hard to see. There was a rational progression to it all. The Dow sit-ins of the fall protested first the corporation's manufacture of napalm, and then the university's sanction of it by allowing Dow to use university facilities to recruit future napalm-makers...
...poem expresses sorrowful reactions to John Kennedy's assassination ("We fell in love with a delicate breath. On the eve that great men called for death.") to the war in Vietnam (where "napalm is in the frying pan") and to the experiencing of personal loss...