Word: materiel
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...China also provides almost 80% of the Viet Cong's infantry weapons, mostly rifles and mortars; small government factories in North Viet Nam can turn out only limited quantities of grenades, land mines and pistols. From the Red bloc in Eastern Europe comes about $150 million worth of materiel. It includes such items as small arms and flak vests from Czechoslovakia, boots and artillery from Poland, medicines from Rumania, motorcycles and bicycles from East Germany and Hungary...
...prodded the White House to fight hard for the treaty's passage, told colleagues that they should not let the Viet Nam war stand in the way of East-West understanding, despite the fact that many were resentful because Russia supplies 70% of Hanoi's imported war materiel. His persuasiveness eventually won over a majority of the Senate's Republicans (who were 22 to 13 in favor of the treaty). Even Ev Dirksen finally confessed: "I'm not impervious to misconceptions." When the time came to vote, Dirksen left a hospital bed, where he was confined...
...tactics and weaponry as yet unused against Hanoi. Last week the U.S. introduced three new forms of military pressure against the enemy's supply lines. This was the response to the Communist use of the Tet holiday truce last month to funnel some 25,000 tons of war materiel southward. Each of the three new moves was carefully tailored for a specific and precise military mission...
...Anyone listening for bubbles of peace [Feb. 10] while the Viet Cong move 30,000 tons of materiel and commit 370 truce violations is a bubblehead. HARRY PETER KUPIEC Baltimore...
...into a permanent bombing pause that would allow the North to resupply its forces without interference. As it turned out, Hanoi used the Tet pause to do just that, mobilizing 2,200 trucks and 1,572 vessels to speed between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of materiel to the South. That is enough to enable the 282,000 Communist troops engaged in the war, who lately have been averaging only one or two days of fighting a month, to maintain their present rate of combat for an entire year...