Word: napalming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them Roman Catholics, some priests and nuns, a physics professor and a Moslem from Pakistan. The leading actors: two hotly controversial priests ?Philip Berrigan, 47, a Josephite, and his Jesuit brother Daniel, 49, both now in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison serving sentences for burning draft records with napalm in May 1968. The plot: a seemingly irrational conspiracy to blow up the heating systems at some five Government sites on Washington's Birthday, 1971, then next day kidnap Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, and hold him hostage until Nixon agreed to speed...
Total Damage. The Cambodian achievement was in holding out. The siege was broken by repeated U.S.-South Vietnamese air strikes that sent at least half a dozen 500-lb. bombs into the center of the town and splattered the area with scores of antipersonnel bombs and huge quantities of napalm. Hardly a building in the town's center was spared major damage...
Flood tells his story from the point of view of an observer watching the Americans in action. Considering the nature of this war, that is a rather curious perspective: Flood sees lots of napalm-he even flies on the fighter planes that drop it-but there is not one word about the burning flesh, the terror, and the grotesque horror of a napalm explosion. Oh no, Flood instead rhapsodizes about the sleek shiny pointed bomb casing the napalm is dropped in. A book about the Vietnam war might be expected to include a little discussion of the National Liberation Front...
...Vietnamization" policy requires that the prisoners of war be abandoned. If the policy works, there will never be a political settlement; instead, the South Vietnamese Army, with the help of American napalm, bombs, and defoliants, will be turned loose to hunt and kill their fellow Vietnamese indefinitely...
...experience of seeking shelter underground as protection from a B-52 bombing raid on Hanoi while he was there in 1967 on a mission of mercy to bring back to America three POW's. He spoke of the children he saw in North Vietnam who had been burned with napalm, and of the total destruction of the countryside and food supply of that small nation. He told of his growing concern that Americans were unaware of the things being done in their name by the Johnson and Nixon administrations inVietnam. He told how he came to believe that speaking...