Word: napalmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been busy sewing brown arm-bands for shirtless volunteers. One parental relative of an AAA volunteer who owns an arms factory in Des Moines, Ia., has donated 10,000 rounds of ammunition to the army. A Southern chemicals baron is providing 400 liters of gas and has organized a napalm reserve...
...insisted: "Our units are intact." Broadcasting from the clandestine rebel station, Castro unleashed a farrago of nonsensical victory claims, e.g., "There is no rebel patrol that has not scored a resounding success." He added an unlikely atrocity tale: "In the Sierra Maestra peasants' huts are being bombed with napalm that came from the United States...
...frontier. All civilians-an estimated 70,000-will be evacuated from this area, and French patrols and aircraft will have orders to shoot anything that moves within the forbidden zone. To deny the rebels cover, the French plan to burn off a huge area of scrub forest with napalm over a period of three months. "If so much as a bird flies, it will be shot down," boasted one French official. Pointing out that the elimination of one forest still left several thousand square miles of terrain rich in cover, an F.L.N. spokesman retorted confidently: "If French troops and civilian...
From the flag bridge they saw the modern Navy put on an impressive, well-run drill. The demonstrations ranged from over-the-shoulder simulated A-bomb tosses to napalm drops, from missile launching to night take-offs and landings. One ensign had trouble with his approaches, was waved away three times before making it on the fourth try. Said the President: "Bet the poor kid was crying his eyes out." The Navy was fairly obvious about its yen to get into the strategic bombing business with, but after, the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. In one notable performance...
Major Offensive. As the rebel force increased (it now numbers 500 men), Batista tried aerial bombing, strafing, napalm attacks and paratroop drops. They had little effect on Castro's hit-and-run platoons. A fortnight ago the strongman was forced to give up the waiting game and mount a major offensive. Commandeering civilian planes, he airlifted 1,100 men to ominous with no-nonsense orders to go in and get Castro's men. Meanwhile, terrorists in other parts of the country are being dealt with ruthlessly-when they are found. In Havana last week, two unexplained bodies turned...