Word: materiel
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...Soviet Union do sponsor peace negotiations, it has broken the long no-war, no-peace stalemate that so disturbed the Arabs. The Syrians and Egyptians, in fighting manfully against the supposedly better-trained Israelis, restored a measure of much-needed national pride. By giving its Arab allies both materiel and moral support, the Soviet Union regained much of its prestige in the Middle East (see box page 38). A small winner may well be Jordan, which retrieved diplomatic recognition from Egypt and Syria and oil subsidies from Kuwait in return for a handful of casualties...
...week's end it was virtually certain that the fourth Middle East war since the founding of Israel in 1948 had come to an end, though at a terrible price. In 18 days of ferocious fighting, all the participants suffered heavy losses in both men and materiel; according to the U.S. Defense Department, as many as 7,700 Egyptians, 7,700 Syrians and 4,500 Israelis were killed or wounded, the largest number of casualties for all three nations in any war since...
...accept Egyptian announcements that the buildup was a military maneuver. The Egyptians had held such maneuvers for the past ten years; there was no indication that this year was any different. Moreover, Cairo gave no hint of anything unusual. There were no air-raid drills, no stockpiling of materiel and no rhetoric aimed at preparing the Egyptian public for war. When Syria moved its troops ten miles forward from its secondary line to the 1967 Golan Heights cease-fire line in the hours before the attack, Israeli intelligence officers first interpreted it as a normal rotation of units...
...communiqué called for a complete cease-fire last Friday, a ban on the infiltration of all new troops and materiel except replacements for those lost by attrition, a repatriation of all captured military and civilian personnel, a return of both Vietnamese forces to positions they occupied in January, and a renewed effort to determine the fate of men missing in action. For its part, the U.S. agreed to end all aerial reconnaissance over North Viet Nam, to resume minesweeping operations in North Vietnamese waters, and to pursue the talks for economic aid to Hanoi...
Such fighting as there is consists largely of mortar attacks on South Vietnamese positions, mining roads, placing booby traps and occasional kidnapings of village and hamlet chiefs. While the North Vietnamese army has moved in additional men and materiel, it does not seem interested in launching a major offensive soon. Rather, it appears to be restoring what it expended during the 1972 spring fighting and hardening its grip on what...