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...support of the United States government. In January of 1972, Portugal signed an agreement leasing the Azores Islands military base to the United States for $436 million dollars which conveniently nearly covers Portugal's budget deficit for the year. Through NATO, the U.S. supplies weapons, bombs, fighter jets and napalm so that the Portuguese can continue their colonial wars against the people's movements of Angola (MPLA), Mozambique (FRELIMO), and Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC...
...Portuguese had served several years ago with the Portuguese army in Gunea-Bissau, one of the three colonies. He said he saw napalm used on the Africans and described various atrocities he had witnessed. "The Portuguese soldiers are mostly poor peasants who are so patriotic they do these things," he explained...
...Once a plane is safely parked, the pilot climbs out and is handed a cold can of Budweiser. While he sips the brew, a yellow forklift truck trundles up with armaments, and the ground crew hurriedly rearms the Phantom with an awesome array of weaponry-iron bombs, rockets and napalm canisters. Normally, the entire operation takes only 20 minutes. The beer never gets warm before the pilot climbs back into his Phantom to take off on another sortie...
...Rescue Committee, where they spend weeks building up their strength for surgery. From there, they are moved to the 54-bed Barsky Unit for their operations. Doctors at the center perform 150 operations a month, trimming away scar tissue that has immobilized joints, reconstructing faces ruined by shrapnel or napalm, and fitting maimed children with artificial limbs...
...dangers if the amendment passed. He tried to limit its scope to allow existing protective legislation to stand after passage. Ervin raised the specter of women "sent into combat, where they will be slaughtered or maimed by the bayonets, the bombs, the bullets, the hand grenades, the mines, the napalm, the poison gas and the shells of the enemy." Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III replied: "What we are doing is enunciating a principle in the Constitution of the U.S. There are and will be classifications based on sex which will be held not to deny or abridge any individual...