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...long, the Communists walked 82-mm. mortar shells, five and six at a time, back and forth across the paratroopers' perimeter. U.S. air and artillery blasted back. Waves of screaming jets swept over, searing and shearing the hilltop bunkers with fragmentation bombs, 750-lb. explosives and napalm canisters. The Communists were so securely shielded that they could be heard firing back even as the jets came in on them. When a group of troopers rushed a bunker and dropped eight grenades inside, a Communist appeared at its mouth moments later and tossed out two of his own grenades, killing...
...most difficult and agonizing problem. It is entirely possible to defend Dow Chemical's right to destroy its corporate reputation by sending its agents to the Harvard Yard--and I would agree with you on this--without implying, as your letters do, that the protection of suppliers of napalm is a virtuous cause and that all sin lies with those who, in a groping and adolescent way are, trying to preserve their university from what they regard as complicity in a disastrous natonal course...
...University would get in real trouble if it ended Dow recruiting because Dow manufacturers napalm," Smithies said, "and not General Motors recruiting because it makes only jeeps, or General Foods recruiting because it makes only K-rations...
...over Dow's ability to produce fire is largely misdirected. So far this year, Dow has supplied the Government with $5,170,000 worth of napalm-less than one-half of 1% of Dow's $1,034,000,000 world-wide sales. By contrast, Lockheed Aircraft supplied $1,531,000,000 worth of equipment to the Defense Department last year. Only about 100 of Dow's 35,000 employees are involved in making napalm. Looming larger in the company's marketing list of more than 800 products are water-purifying chemicals, cold medicines, insecticides and anesthetics...
National Commitment. Dow President Herbert D. Doan insists that napalm is of no economic importance to the company, and that principle rather than money is involved in its manufacture. "As long as the U.S. is involved in Viet Nam," he says, "we believe in fulfilling our responsibility to this national commitment of a democratic society. Napalm is highly effective in certain specific combat situations encountered in Viet Nam. General Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has described the necessity for the use of this material and the great precautions taken to avoid injury to civilians. He has also...