Word: materiel
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...before a grand jury concerning their alleged involvement in arms traffic to Northern Ireland via Texas; eventually, they were released. This year's pro-I.R.A. martyrs include the "Baltimore Four," two Irishmen and two Irish Americans who were convicted of conspiring to smuggle 158 rifles and other materiel from New York to Ireland...
...talent whose prime-time series have been canceled are glad to pick up this bargain-basement work. The computerlike electronics of the score-keeping on these shows is probably a fallout from the region's interest in space-age technology. The emphasis on rewarding winners with the materiel of the good life-patio furniture, camping equipment and cars, cars, cars -suits the fabled Southern California lifestyle. It would never occur to a Manhattan-based producer that such stuff could be thought of as a necessity, not a nuisance...
...Viet Nam and Laos-and the Administration says that more is needed. It has requested a ceiling of $ 1.6 billion in fiscal 1975 for South Viet Nam alone. The rationale is that the military balance must be maintained, and the Pentagon insists that it is merely replacing South Vietnamese materiel losses on a one-to-one basis...
...departed.) But the inaccuracies Martin finds do not undercut Shipler's major points. These Martin attacks with invective and some assertions of his own. The "course of the war" is not set by U.S. aid; rather it is set by "the continuous and continuing Communist buildup." In fact, materiel from both Hanoi and the U.S. contribute to the tempo of military action. Martin never directly claims that there have been no South Vietnamese violations of the ceasefire; he attacks Shipler for not presenting "a shred of evidence" of such violations. "The U.S.," he insists, "has no military advisers...
Powerless Commission. Even though the Communists now appear to have enough materiel stockpiled to sus tain major fighting for at least twelve months, Western intelligence experts do not expect them to launch a serious offensive in the near future. Nonetheless, Western analysts have a notably poor record deciphering Communist intentions; they failed to predict the massive offensives of Tet 1968 and Easter 1972. The frequency of the cease-fire viola tions convinces South Vietnamese lead ers that Hanoi has not abandoned its aim to take over the entire South...