Word: materiel
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...last week Mohammed turned on France. He flatly demanded the withdrawal of all French forces in Morocco. To show that he meant business, his army halted three French military trains, thereby interrupting the convenient arrangement under which 50,000 troops and great quantities of materiel have been shipped into Algeria from France's Moroccan garrisons in the past two years. A week earlier, when news seeped out of the desert that French and Spanish forces were conducting a joint campaign to clear their Saharan possessions of Moroccan irregulars, Mohammed V launched on a tour of Morocco's southern...
Reinier, the son of the director of materiel research at the Watertown Arsenal, and Dushan, the son of an aeronautical engineer with Avco Research Laboratories, are the latest products of the top-notch program of Dr. Albert E. Navez, head of the science department at Newton High School since 1949. Belgian-born Navez, 59, who is also Belgian consul in Boston, starts grooming likely science prospects in junior high school. Says Teacher Navez of Reinier and Dushan: "To them, science is an adventure...
...France's visiting Foreign Minister Pineau (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the U.S. ought to help the French pacify the Algerian nationalists. Deputy Under Secretary Murphy heard out the protests of Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine (speaking for eight Arab nations) that the French army was already using U.S. war materiel against "the national liberation movement," and that NATO was becoming "a direct means to support colonialism." The U.S. subtly indicated its own feelings on North Africa by elevating a new diplomatic mission at Rabat, capital of newly free Morocco, to the status of an embassy...
...week. It had always been one-sided. Teams of truce inspectors-Swedes and Swiss appointed by the U.N., Poles and Czechs named by the Reds-freely ranged South Korea, making sure that the 1953 armistice restrictions were meticulously observed. But in North Korea, where a buildup of men and materiel has gone on in defiance of the armistice, Communist team members obstructed inspection wherever violations occurred...
...commission gets U.N. reports faithfully listing all troops and materiel moving in and out of South Korea, as required by the armistice terms, while the Reds file reports containing virtually no information. In ten months, during which the U.N. reported using 194,301,524 bullets for normal firing practice, the Communists reported that their million-man army in Korea fired not a single bullet...