Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very obliquely assailed the Administration's foreign policy. The code words included praise for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident Soviet writer whom Ford had refused to invite to the White House; criticism of pursuing détente?a word that Ford had banned ?without insisting on concurrent Soviet concessions; an attack on "secret agreements, hidden from our people"; and a reference to "Helsinki," where Ford had agreed to the 35-nation pact ratifying the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe...
Vice President Rockefeller and U.N. Ambassador William Scranton urged the Ford campaign advisers to oppose the amendment. "Nelson and I both thought it was very bad, an attack on the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger foreign policy," Scranton said. In a conference in the sky suite, Burch, Tower, Senators Hugh Scott and Roman Hruska tried to still the urge for more combat. They reasoned that Ford had just won the big test, he might well lose a second, there was no need to dilute the night's good work. Nearly alone, Rocky sought some softening language. The Reaganites were in no mood...
...makes his points not with obloquy or the cement fist or leaden tongue of a Spiro Agnew, but with an acerbic wit that often leaves everyone but the victim laughing. Dole has characterized Senator Edmund Muskie as "a political Rip Van Winkle who awoke and started to attack Nixon," and he once dismissed former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a "left-leaning marshmallow...
...Americans refused. A few minutes later, a truckload of some 30 additional North Korean troops arrived at the scene. An officer shouted "Chukyo!" -the order to kill. The North Koreans suddenly swarmed over the Americans and South Koreans, assaulting them with metal pikes, axes and ax handles. When the attack was over, two American officers, Captain Arthur G. Bonifas,* 33, and Lieut. Mark T. Barrett, 25, were dead of massive head injuries and stab wounds; four other Americans and five South Koreans were wounded. North Korea announced that five of its soldiers were wounded in the fracas...
Bitter Rhetoric. In both Washington and Seoul, officials said they were mystified over the reasons for the North Korean attack. It is conceivable that it was simply a local controversy: the hostility along the DMZ is strong enough for the pruning of a tree to become a casus belli (see box). Beyond that, the Korean Communists have been unusually bitter lately in their rhetorical condemnations of the U.S. presence in South Korea. Last week, for example, the North Korean embassy in Peking twice issued warnings that "a critical situation" was developing in Korea and that war could break...