
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, December 5, 1994                   TAG: 9412060056
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: FALLBROOK, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

MILITARY TO DISPOSE OF NAPALM

Twenty years after the Vietnam War, the military is planning to dispose of its last stocks of napalm, the sticky, fiercely burning incendiary weapon.

More than 35,000 aluminum canisters containing 23 million pounds of napalm are soon to be removed from the Fallbrook Naval Weapons Station, where they've sat outside in wooden crates for two decades.

Officials of the Southern California center plan a public hearing next month to brief the public on the disposal plan, which could cost more than $24 million.

Past attempts to remove the napalm failed for various reasons, including a lack of money. Napalm is a sticky, flammable mixture of benzene, gasoline and polystyrene plastic. It was dropped in bombs from aircraft and used in flamethrowers.

- Associated Press

by CNB