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...love the smell of napalm in the morning," declared Lieut. Colonel Kilgore in the epic Apocalypse Now. Any deskbound battle buff who shares that sentiment will find a sensory treat in the current issue of Armed Forces Journal International, a Washington-based monthly. BEI Defense Systems, a Fort Worth-based arms manufacturer (1988 sales: $51 million), has come up with a novel twist on the aromatic advertisements that fill consumer magazines. When scratched, the latest ads for its Hydra-70, a relatively inexpensive rocket ($400 to $800), emit the odor of burnt cordite, an explosive substance in such weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE CONTRACTORS: A Whiff Of War | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Harvard is the home of napalm, William James, and B.F. Skinner and football...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Harvard: The Real Home of Football | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...film is loosely based on the true story of a couple who were involved in the bombing of a napalm factory in which someone was killed. In Running, the events are changed, and we are told the victim is only wounded, presumably to avoid alienating viewers from the fictitious couple, Annie (Christine Lahti) and Arthur Pope (Judd Hirsch) and their two sons Danny (River Phoenix) and Harry (Jonas Abry...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Rebels Without a Clue | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...Hutu activists in Rwanda, who it says incited fellow tribesmen to attack the Tusi. In a press conference last week, Burundi's President, Major Pierre Buyoya, who took power in a bloodless coup last September, said he regretted the need to use force but denied that the army used napalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burundi Horror Amid The Green Hills | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...everything-including-a-balanced-budge t program. Reaganomics with a bow-tie, Gephardt said. And DuPont, fresh from an endorsement by the wacky but influential Manchester Union-Leader, is the only guy more annoying to listen to than Bruce Babbitt. When he speaks, the preppified former Delaware governor and Napalm-heir sounds like a Kennedy gargling mouthwash...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: A Brokawed Convention | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

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