Word: napalming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinktank decides to sell it to the Pentagon, he turns the research on himself and destroys the project. The project: invisibility. You might think its a big breakthrough for television to be dealing with such a controversial issue. But, when the students of the real issues are napalm-makers and poison gas developers aren't working on invisibility, they're working on laser-beam weapons and accurate nuclear weapons. But those aren't good for the story line, and after all, now the invisible man can infiltrate foreign embassies and exact his own form of foreign policy in a neitschian...
...learn not to see what is disturbing and see only what is comfortable. We learn not to see the laboratory where napalm was invented and see only the world "Veritas" chiseled into the stone wall. We learn not to see the young men drafted into fighting a war for American business, and see only a struggle for democratic ideals. We learn not to see the old and unemployed--those who become isolated from mainstream society by being denied participation in the economy--and see only the opportunities which exist for the rest...
High Figure. What Becker has added is flashy combat footage from Viet Nam. Ophuls wrote in a memorandum to the producers that "theatrical equations (Auschwitz-Napalm or Hitler-Nixon) . . . could only lead to the reinforcement of cynicism and hopelessness...
...Prek Phnou, which is only eight miles from Phnom-Penh, three T-28s dropped napalm on a paddyfield, causing orange flames to spurt across the open area. Three Cambodian youths in ragtag uniforms came trudging down a dirt road; one wore a purple bandanna around his head, another a Pathet Lao peaked cap from Laos, and the third had on a fatigue jacket and red bathing trunks. But all three carried M-79 grenade launchers slung across their slender shoulders...
...POLICY. American officials speak about the Palestinians, but they do not really speak with them. No one has approached us. We are getting killed -our children, our women, our old people-by American arms, American planes, American bombs, American napalm. I wonder how the innocent American taxpayer feels about the tragedy for which he is paying...