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...talks with Nixon had failed to change the U.S. arms policy toward Pakistan, which is anxious to replace matériel lost in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. The U.S. shipment of armored personnel carriers during the conflict provoked charges that Washington was favoring Pakistan. The Administration denied it-until Columnist Jack Anderson leaked the now famous memo quoting Henry Kissinger as saying, "The President wants to tilt in favor of Pakistan." The U.S. currently supplies Bhutto with "nonlethal" equipment such as trucks, uniforms and spare parts, and will consider requests for ammunition only on a case-by-case basis...
Just three miles off Helvick Head on the southeast Irish coast, the navy's three minesweepers and a fishery protection vessel trapped a coastal freighter laden with five tons of arms. The catch was not mammoth as military matériel goes, but it included the kinds of weapons that the Provos have used to murderous effect: 250 submachine guns, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 antitank and antipersonnel mines, 500 lbs. of gelignite, 300 grenades, TNT, explosive fuses and detonators...
...impending settlement has touched off a scramble by both sides to funnel as much equipment as possible to their forces In South Viet Nam before peace breaks out. The U.S. estimates that large amounts of war matériel were moving down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in September and that the flow has increased noticeably in recent weeks. The U.S., too, is taking the utmost advantage of the delay in Paris, rushing to South Viet Nam equipment already authorized and funded by Congress for next year. Explains one Pentagon official: "The agreement allows for one replacement [for each piece...
DEFENSE: For the rest of this fiscal year, Pentagon spending will be considerably speeded up, with much of the increase going for matériel planned for later delivery. Next year, though Viet Nam spending will continue to decline, much of the long-awaited "peace dividend" will remain firmly in the hands of the Pentagon. Its budget will show a $900 million increase (to $75.9 billion) in fiscal 1973. To prepare for the all-volunteer army that Nixon has promised by mid-1973, some of the dividend will be used to raise the pay of armed-forces careerists...
...riel, India also has the edge: of its 1,450 tanks, about 450 are Russian medium tanks, and about 300 Indian-made Vijayanta tanks. India has 625 combat aircraft, including some 120 MIG-21 supersonic fighters and eight squadrons of Indian-made Gnats. For its part, Pakistan has about 1,100 tanks, including 200 American Patton tanks, 225 Chinese T-59s, and numerous old American Shermans and Chaffees of limited utility. Pakistan's 285 combat aircraft include two squadrons of Mirage 111 fighters and eight squadrons of American F-86 Sabres...