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...tanks pounded Jordanian positions with merciless accuracy. The Arabs brought up reinforcements and pounded back, turning great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm on the East Bank. They destroyed a guerrilla base, damaged several towns, terrorized Arab refugee tent-camps and knocked out gun emplacements as far inland as Irbid, 20 miles away on Jordan's arid central plateau...
People opposed to this country's action in Vietnam, including our use of napalm, could express themselves most convincingly in a large orderly demonstration on the occasion of the Dow recruiter's visit. In number, people opposed to the war exceed those who are united on any single position with regard to campus recruitment, student power, or the draft; they also exceed those willing to join in obstructing the recruiter. The amount of serious support at Harvard for any stand will be judged according to the number (not vociferousness) of those who take it. A non-obstructing, massive anti...
...Vietnam," Cottle has concluded, "is somewhere in the American consciousness, a racial struggle. We would not be so ready to use napalm on whites as we are on the 'yellow' Vietnamese...
...rolled right through the camp's wire and up onto the bunker roofs, followed by North Vietnamese infantrymen. "We heard them," says a Green Beret, "but we never thought they were tanks. We thought they were our generator acting up." Soon the Communists started shoveling satchel charges, grenades, napalm and tear gas down the air vents in an effort to dis lodge the defenders...
...Peace Corps indistinguishable from the U.S. Government? Can the U.S. honestly be working for peace in some countries while dropping napalm on another country? If peace is the product of understanding, respect, and economic development, the need to work for peace is real in several score of countries whether or not there is peace in Vietnam. The imperative may indeed be greater as there is so much misunderstood and remaining to be said about Vietnam...