Word: flow
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...bombing has been so effective, Brown said, that the flow of supplies has been cut to 50% of what North Vietnamese fighting units in the South require. As a result, while the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies were launching an average of seven battalion-sized attacks a month in 1965, this year the figure has dropped to 1.7 -though there are now more Communist battalions in the South. The Communists have failed to mount a single major offensive on their own all year, have instead been prodded by probing U.S. troops into a number of counterattacks...
...great disappointments of the bombing has been its failure to stop the flow of men from the North. "Infiltration continues," said Brown. In fact, it has risen from 4,500 men a month last year to 7,000 at present. Still, military men believe that the infiltration rate would probably be much higher without the bombings. Their value was dramatically illustrated two weeks ago when, according to U.S. officers in Saigon, American planes sighted a 600-man North Vietnamese battalion moving through Mu Gia Pass, one of the prime portals to the South. The planes swooped in and virtually wiped...
Hussein's refusal to arm Jordan's Palestinian refugees against another attack by Israel had merely spurred the flow of contraband weapons that have been filtering quietly into refugee camps on both sides of the Jordan River. Jordanian troops uncovered one huge arms cache in Hebron and, after a blazing gunfight that left one policeman dead, intercepted another truckload of weapons heading into Nablus. At an anti-Hussein demonstration in Damascus, Syrian Chief of State Noureddin Attassi promised Jordanians all the weapons they needed-not to fight Israel, but to overthrow Hussein. "Today," Attassi roared, "Jordan will...
economy did during four years of Depression in the '30s. Since last Decem ber, when tightening money began to choke off housing's flow of mortgage funds, the annual rate of home and apartment starts has dropped more than 50%, to a 20-year low. In the latest count, in October, private-housing starts were scraping along at a mere 848,000 a year. At that pace, the prosperous...
...many first-rate novelists at work today whose output is read widely. O'Hara's books invariably become bestsellers. Bernard Malamud's The Fixer is sailing along profitably. Cheever, Updike, Steinbeck, Mailer, Bellow, Styron, all have ready audiences as well, despite the torrents of trash that flow off the presses alongside their work. Truman Capote insists: "There are more gifted writers in this country now than there have ever been before...