Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narcotics trade belongs to Medellin. It did in the 1980s, when that city's cartel did more than anyone to put cocaine on the street corners of America. But Medellin's drug power has been shattered by its long and vicious war on the Colombian government. A 22-month counterattack by the authorities has killed drug boss Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, forced the surrender of his fellow cocaine barons, the brothers Jorge, Juan David and Fabio Ochoa, destroyed dozens of labs and airstrips and scattered lesser capos abroad. In the most stunning blow yet to the cartel, Medellin chief Pablo...
...last week in the Post, breaks little new ground about the war itself. Woodward devotes only his final six pages to the actual fighting, and hardly mentions such things as allied targeting procedures for the air war, the failure of Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard to mount a serious counterattack, and the Pentagon's success at using its unprecedented control over press coverage to win public acceptance of the war. Omissions of that kind seem all the more glaring in a book written by a co-star of the Post's legendary Watergate investigation...
...groups of scientists from UCLA and the University of Alabama believe they have found the beginning of an answer. In independent studies published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers demonstrated for the first time that the body launches a massive and effective counterattack on the virus soon after the infection begins. If doctors can figure out how to reproduce that early, powerful immune response, they might be able to develop better medical treatments that would postpone -- or prevent -- the later, debilitating stages of the disease...
...counterattack by the services is taking shape in Washington. They have sounded out congressional support for a slowdown in the scheduled cuts. Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, says he is willing to reconsider the five-year plan. General Carl Vuono, the Army Chief of Staff, recommends a slowing of force reductions in light of the gulf war and uncertainty over the stability of the Soviet Union...
...invasion came, the Iraqi plan fell apart. Coalition forces broke through in several places along the Kuwaiti border and swept into Iraq far to the west. Without air reconnaissance, neither Baghdad nor the Guard's division commanders knew where the main thrust was nor where they should direct a counterattack. They were unable to communicate with one another, and continuous air attacks kept them from moving out to reconnoiter. Though some of the Guards put up a fight and allied officers called them "good soldiers," they were destroyed piecemeal...