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...noisy C-130s over the area to deliver the first American combat parachute jump of the war. Giant trees crumpled as B-52s from Guam, 2,600 miles away, swept in to carpet the forest with high explosives. Screaming Phantoms and Skyraiders plastered the perimeters of jungle clearings with napalm and thermite bombs, setting brushfires that blazed for days. Helicppters thrummed in to deposit entire platoons of infantrymen, and armored personnel carriers rumbled through the mire at 500 yards an hour in hopes of pinning Charlie to the sticking point...
...across the border into Cambodia-giving the lie to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's statement last week that his country was not being used as a Viet Cong sanctuary. As the Americans, aided by South Vietnamese forces, moved cautiously through the area, the ground was still so hot from napalm that the troops were unable to crouch; the only survivors of the scorched earth seemed to be millions of aggressive red ants, which climbed over the troops and stung them as they advanced...
...like stones. Moments later, a Medevac chopper was downed-the ninth helicopter to fall in as many minutes. Pinned down behind low paddyfield dikes, the South Vietnamese called for air strikes. U.S. and Vietnamese fighter-bombers thundered in from as far away as Cam Ranh Bay to lay bombs, napalm and cannon fire within 150 ft. of the pinned-down infantrymen...
Viet Nam brings out the most apocalyptic of Fulbright's denunciations. "We see the Viet Cong, who cut the throats of village chiefs, as savage murderers," he says, but we see "American flyers who incinerate unseen women and children with napalm as valiant fighters for freedom." Such oversimplified formulations do little to make Fulbright's thesis credible. What distinguishes Viet Nam from every earlier American war is remarkable restraint and the very lack of jingoism that provides Fulbright with an audience...
...demonstrators were also protesting the widespread death and destruction to civilian populations in North and South Vietnam, and the injury to children by napalm bombing...