Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should have died before being born. Like certain other recent books, it has its eye on the cash appeal of Ivy League glamor and a "where it's happening" subject. But it is more wearisome and dangerous than most. For Dealing has all the subtlety and compassion of a spray-painted slogan, without a concomitant clarity of purpose...
...population directly exposed to 2,4,5-T presumably does not exceed five per cent (and may even be one per cent or less) of the total population of Vietnam, although this must be more accurately determined from precise spray data. This factor alone strikingly dilutes any apparent effects of the spraying on birth statistics when those directly exposed are added to the total statistics of the country, but this effect is even more accentuated by the fact that most of this population is necessarily in remote and usually insecure areas and therefore information regarding medical effects...
...military sprays herbicides in Vietnam from planes, helicopters, and some ground equipment. Most of the spraying, though, is done from C-123 cargo planes. In the seven years preceding 1961 more than 11,000 spray flights were made by these planes; each flight effectively kills vegetation in an area approximately 85 meters wide and 15 kilometers (81/2 miles) long...
Before the spraying began, the target area in the valley was subject to "maximum suppressive fire," a procedure used by the Seventh U.S. Air Force to protect the spray planes-slow-flying C-123's-from ground fire. This procedure involves application of 300 per cent saturation bombing with cluster bomb units, an application which leaves someone on the ground less than a one per cent chance of not being hit, assuming the bombs were dropped randomly...
...march was scheduled to move to Copley Square. The column yipped and whooped down Tremont Street, then down Boylston past riot police spaced more and more closely together. Lord and Taylors and the offices of New England Life Insurance were spray painted...