Word: materiel
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...Mobutu is openly supplying his longtime friend Holden Roberto, head of the F.N.L.A., with arms. U.S. law forbids foreign arms purchasers to pass them on to third parties, but as Zaïre receives new supplies of American weapons it will be free to send older Chinese and French materiel to Angola. In any case, the U.S. is already involved in the Angolan arms race; Washington is financing non-American arms deliveries to F.N.L.A. and UNITA through third parties...
...military assistance soared to a total of $3 billion in 1973-74. After Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy failed last March, the flow of strategic and tactical weaponry to Israel began to dry up, and so did the delivery of spare parts for existing materiel. A $2.5 billion Israeli request for military and economic aid was shelved while the U.S. undertook a "reassessment" of its Middle East policy...
...Arab states have proved a profitable mine for the Kremlin, they have also been costly in unexpected ways. One is the military equipment provided on a longterm, low-interest basis: Egypt lost as much as $1 billion in Soviet materiel in the Six-Day War; Syria's armor and air corps were so shattered by the 1973 war that the Russians had to send Damascus $2 billion more...
...meeting, Ford asked interminable questions. Where were the crew members taken? How many U.S. military men and how much U.S. materiel was available in the area? How soon could that force be brought to the site of the seizure...
...reason for this painful loss of precious materiel was the very suddenness of Thieu's decision to abandon several provinces. Soldiers had no time to organize orderly retreats. In northern Quang Tri province, one of the army's best regional defense groups suffered a 15% desertion rate just before the Communist attack on the once lovely Hue; most of the deserters were concerned about the fate of their families. The retreat from Hue reached the frightening proportions of a stampede. Soldiers left behind 105-mm. howitzers and threw away rifles...