Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This action," said the Birchers, "betrays many fundamental principles of our Republic and goes counter to precedents repeatedly established in respect to countries smaller both in area and population . . . [Katanga President] Tshombe and his people are a Christian, anti-Communist nation friendly to us. They are fighting to establish a free constitutional representative republic...
...magazines abound on the newsstands, and the air is pungent with the aroma of steaming black coffee. The sight of Cuban women in hip-hugging skirts and slacks is savored by Latin loungers on every streetcorner. Tickets for the bolita, an illegal lottery, are discreetly sold under the counter. The scene might well be Havana's Prado. But it is actually downtown Miami...
Though thoroughly argued, however, this is a minor point. Piel ought to deal with the questions raised by the experts' assumptions. But he dodges these; taking refuge in the possibility of a "counter-force plus bonus" attack, in which the enemy diverts a percentage of his missiles from military to civilian targets, or in the fact that since military targets are distributed over the whole country, both attack designs have the same effect. And both make defence impossible. But the point is that, if these possibilities are admitted, the "illusory" nature of civil defence is self-evident, and hardly requires...
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 15--A tourist supposedly vacationing in the scenic Sierra Maestra Mountains was captured today and exposed as a Yankee imperialist spy while distributing counter-revolutionary propaganda under the guise of humor...
...greatest gathering of Christians since the 16th century, when the Council of Trent worked for 18 years to counter the Protestant Reformation, ends this week in New Delhi. It is the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Behind all the well-organized confusion - the hustling to and fro between auditorium and committee room, the 15,000 sheet daily blizzard of mimeographed paper, the lost traveler's checks, the distracting snake charmers and the non stop talking across language barriers - a vast regrouping of Christendom seems to be taking shape. One veteran churchman. President Henry Pitney Van Dusen...