Word: materiel
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Moreover, since many chips go into materiel that is used only once, like missiles and bomb fuses, their dependability remains uncertain until they are tested in action. But the Pentagon insists that the National Semiconductor chips pose no threat to U.S. security...
...commanders ought to be dealing only with security matters." Some have even declared that the Israeli army is not ready for the next war, wherever and whenever it may come. That, in the opinion of most Israeli military experts, is probably not true. But the cost in lives and materiel might be high, at least in the early stages of fighting. The I.D.F.'s morale problem stems in part from the unpopularity of the war in Lebanon and the war's ambiguous conclusion. It also comes from the knowledge that there have been occasional charges of corruption within...
...Egyptians have also strengthened their position in the Persian Gulf. They are selling $800 million a year in war materiel to Iraq, and there are said to be at least 25,000 Egyptian volunteers fighting on the Iraqi side against Iran. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has condemned such acts by moderate Arabs, but, even with his bursts of Iranian-inspired Shi'ite terrorism, he has not stopped them. In Kuwait last week, the government announced that 25 people, including 17 Iraqis, would go on trial beginning Feb. 11 on charges of carrying out bombings against the American and French...
...quantities of highly sophisticated weapons. The Soviet aim has been not merely to replace equipment lost when Syria tried to blunt Israel's invasion of Lebanon last June, but to increase Soviet influence in the region by offering the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad more and better materiel than he had before. Moscow, moreover, has added a new dimension to its involvement in Syria by installing SA-5 missile bases that have to be manned by Soviet troops and technicians. Says a West European diplomat in Damascus: "For the first time, the Soviets have bases in Syria. This...
...dispirited troops. As conditions deteriorated, he says, Menendez "seemed to shrink five centimeters every day." Faced with a severe equipment shortage, Galtieri reveals that he bought ten Mirage jets from Peru, then cut a deal with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the delivery of five Boeings loaded with materiel. Galtieri also admits what everyone has suspected all along: he did not resign voluntarily after the debacle. His fellow generals forced him to quit...