Word: napalm
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...Catonsville, Md. Telling the terrified women clerks on duty that they had come for the records, the invaders emptied the contents of four filing drawers into wire rubbish baskets. Then they carried them out the door and burned hem in a nearby parking lot, starting the blaze with napalm they had whipped up from a recipe in an Army manual. The Berrigan brothers- Daniel, 47 and Philip, 44- had struck again...
...keyed hands-in-pockets approach, correcting himself meticulously whenever he slipped. Witness his remark that U.S. negotiators had objected to bombing "statistics being thrown about -we don't say that-being used" by the North Vietnamese. His opposite number, Nguyen Thanh Le, displayed fragments of antipersonnel bombs and napalm canisters and endlessly recited the North Vietnamese demands. As the recitation came full circle for the second or third time, reporters began drifting off to the snack...
...girl comes up to me with some paper towels. Take these, she says, so you can wipe the vaseline off your face when you're in jail. I haven't got vaseline on my face. I am thinking that vaseline is a big petroleum interest, probably makes napalm, and anyway it's too greasy. I hear over the walky-talky that Hamilton has been busted and that the sundial people are moving to Low and Fayer-weather to obstruct the police. I put vaseline on my face. I also put vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above...
Between color panoramas of napalm strikes and smiling Vietnamese peasants, the Army waxed poetic...
...Much of it has been generated by the war in Viet Nam. Northwestern Placement Director Dr. Frank S. Endicott points out that "business has been identified with the war for supporting it, and some students say for causing it." Thus students react against such corporations as Dow Chemical, whose napalm epitomizes the war. Even here the reports have been disproportionate; Dow is doing well with its recruiting (TIME, April...