Word: materiel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Incredibly Brave. To a sometimes absurd degree, the Vietnamization of the war has meant the Americanization of the Vietnamese, who have developed a taste for the U.S. Army manner as well as for U.S. materiel. From battalion level on up, every ARVN headquarters has a full battery of plastic-covered briefing charts ready to be whipped out for visiting VIPs...
...battles have pitted planes, tanks, artillery against each other, and in fact both materiel losses and casualties appear to have run far higher than in the east. Most of the sites were the very places where the two armies slugged it out in their last war in 1965. Yet there were no all-out offensives. The Indian army's tactic was to maintain a defensive posture, launching no attacks except where they assisted its defenses...
...cabled. "In fact, not until we reach the small city is there any sign of fighting. We sit down in a semicircle in front of the briefer?Lieut. Colonel C.L. Proudfoot. In a blazing Bengal sun are three Pakistani tanks (U.S.-made Chaffees) and an odd assortment of captured materiel: American machine guns and Chinese ammunition. Proudfoot explains that Pakistani tanks have been probing the border near Boyra since Nov. 17. On the night of Nov. 20-21, he said, a number of tanks were heard approaching Boyra. The tanks reached and began firing on Indian positions. A squadron...
...shipping tie-up a national emergency; if he did so, he could send the men back to work during a 90-day cooling-off period. Members of Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (I.L.W.U.) have continued to unload passenger ships and move both war materiel bound for Viet Nam and relief supplies for East Pakistan. Even so, the strike has already caused delays and inconvenience for millions of U.S. businessmen and their customers-and taken a heavy financial toll of many of them. Shipowners lose as much as $10,000 a day for each idle...
...always look toward Moscow to fill in military supplies that Peking might cut off. Yet China remains influential because of its current and past help to Hanoi in the war. China watchers are increasingly convinced that Peking's leaders are tired of this drain on their time, money and materiel and are eager to concentrate on building their economy?and confronting some 400,000 Soviet troops poised near their borders. Moreover, they no longer fear that the U.S. will emerge from the war in any position that would seriously embarrass the Communist forces...