Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even booksellers have come under fire. For months, the Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., has campaigned to get stores to remove Playboy, Penthouse and similar magazines from their shelves. Last week the 1,300-store Waldenbooks chain, the nation's largest, launched a counterattack in the form of full-page ads in 32 U.S. newspapers, denouncing "censorship efforts" and "an increasing pattern of intolerance...
...Biology Department promptly launched a counterattack as head tutor Sye T. Plasm said of Physics, "Those weenies think they're so cool just because they study quantum mechanics. Whoop-de-friggin...
Still, the fact that some Republicans had been caught up in the initial fascination with the Moynihan plan led the White House to launch a hasty counterattack. Budget Director Richard Darman presented Congress with a plan for a Social Security Integrity and Debt Reduction Fund that would require the Federal Government to gradually stop using the surplus to cover Government operating costs. The plan would not begin to take effect, however, until after the 1992 presidential election, and then only in stages. "Phased integrity," Republican Senate Leader Bob Dole mischievously called...
Mexican officials were enraged by the program, and last week the government- owned television network launched a counterattack: an hour-long documentary charging that Camarena himself was a narcotics dealer and was killed after he betrayed the drug lords he worked for. Drug Enforcement Administration Director Jack Lawn, a prominent character in the NBC program, labeled the charges "outrageous" and pointed out that Camarena died penniless...
Noriega began his legal counterattack the day he arrived in Florida by refusing to enter a plea at his arraignment in U.S. district court. Dressed in a fresh uniform that was sent to him at the Vatican embassy by his mistress Vicky Amado, the general used headphones to follow the proceedings in Spanish. Defense attorney Frank A. Rubino argued that his client was immune from prosecution because he was a political prisoner who had been brought to the U.S illegally...