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...NAPALM IS ONE of those things that has very few defenders; it may have turned more Americans against the war in Vietnam than anything else, this burning jelly that did in people. Somehow it's appropriate that the University that brought you Indochina also produced the most controversial weapon of the war, albiet 20 years ealier. In a shallow lake on Soldiers Field, dug by Buildings and Grounds workers, Louis Feiser, professor of Chemistry, developed the stuff, tested it mid great flashes, and probably crowed with satisfaction when at worked...
...panel appointed by the president of MIT investigated the role of the Laboratory and recommended fewer military contracts. Student activists attempted to pressure the Lab to convert to non-military research, and at one demonstration the door of the Lab was set on fire after it was reported that napalm was made inside the building. Ultimately in May of 1971, as a political compromise, MIT divested itself of Draper Lab, though some MIT faculty and graduate students still work on Lab projects...
...hope that gene splicing [March 9] produces happier results than the offspring of some previous discoveries of science and industry. We can do without the equivalents of thalidomide, vinyl chloride, PCB, dioxin, napalm and hydrogen bombs. Genetic engineers have not yet shown themselves to be more reliable or mindful of the outcome of their creations than their industrial predecessors...
...name: what we will be producing, more accurately, is nerve gas, which kills by paralyzing the central nervous system. While death by nerve gas is no more horrible than death by other means, its use poses serious questions-- can it be used strictly as a weapon, and not, like napalm in Vietnam, end up as a means of destroying civilians? And will this gradual re-deployment open the door to the production of uncontrollable biological weaponry...
Aquino himself expresses gratitude to the U.S., attributing his release to "a tremendous effort on the part of America." On his various excursions to Washington and New York, he urges the United States to refrain from supplying Marcos with "napalm and guns" and asks that America not "intervene--just...