Word: napalming
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...gets tortured. Or he wanders into a medical center and has to escape from this mad scientist who's transplanting human heads onto pig bodies. Or he gets fished up by financiers who swindle him and hand him over to the police for running their guns and their napalm to some petty African dictatorship. He does five years time and comes out prattling about the goodness of man. He gets done in a couple of more times anyway and ends up auditioning for movies, totally by accident, of course, like everything else he does. In the last part he sits...
...Marcello Caetano, dictator of Portugal. Freedom fighters in the three African colonies of Portugal have been struggling for over a decade to rid the continent of the last vestiges of nineteenth-century-style imperialism. Caetano's government has used napalm and anti-personnel weapons against the revolutionaries. He seems to have learned some lessons from Number...
...same time that Vietnam depicted the contradictions of American society framed by burning napalm fire, it hinted that the impasse can be traversed. The Vietnamese have prevailed. They have gone several steps further toward winning their freedom and are now in the process of constructing a socialist society of freedom, humanity, equality and justice across all Vietnam. Though the tactics of their struggle have little immediate relevance to the tasks before us in a modernized society, their success in the face of insurmountable odds gives us heart that those tasks can eventually be accomplished in America...
...changeability of man. The tough-talking aide to Senator Joe McCarthy, by the end of his life, had been transformed by the current of events into a passionate seeker after justice, repudiating a war he had helped plan, questioning the Great Society, testing the limits of liberalism. The napalm and the hungry children and the urban rubble had left their mark on this man. He had heard the chants of the demonstrators, seen the blank, glum stares of the unemployed, felt the smoldering anger that erupted at Watts and Detroit and Neward, Robert Kennedy, like many of us, searched...
...have forgotten too easily the December terror-bombing -- which ended only four months ago. Watergate is now the central issue of the moment; the burning cities, the clinging napalm fire and the screaming children have been replaced by the Mitchells and the Magruders and the Deans...