Word: counterattack
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Free of Questions. The report was only one phase of the mayor's counterattack. He angrily challenged the three major television networks to grant him an hour's prime time to explain himself and his police. "Certainly," said Daley, "the grave implication of these events to the cities of America, which was not portrayed during the convention coverage, should be presented to the American public...
Bamboo Breathing. After two days of fighting, the Marines took the village, only to be driven back by a vicious Communist counterattack. Next day the Marines drove through Dai Do again-and again the North Vietnamese drove them back, supported by 130-mm. guns firing from North Viet Nam. But it was the 320th's last lunge. Under artillery and air strikes, it was forced to retreat northward, leaving 856 of its dead behind, as U.S. jets pursued and pounded its remnants. The Marines lost 68 dead, had 323 wounded seriously enough to require evacuation...
...something about the President that reacts to any meaningful challenge to his authority, but the response is reflex and relentless when the defial comes from a Kennedy. True to form, scarcely 48 hours after Robert F. Kennedy became an open rival for the presidency, Johnson launched a massive counterattack. During a week whose pace and tempo seemed more attuned to the windup of a bitter election than to its opening hours, the President made it clear that he was prepared to use all of his immense powers and political wiles to thwart his adversary...
...Lawrence hockey team scored three times in the first period against a drowsy Harvard defense and then fended off a Crimson counterattack for a 6-4 victory Saturday night at Watson Rink...
Finally, just before 8 a.m., Pfc. Paul Healey, 20, led a counterattack through the front gate, personally killing five V.C. with grenades and his M-16 rifle. Minutes later, two paratroop platoons from the 101st Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the embassy's rooftop helipad. Working their way down, they met no resistance. Though V.C. prisoners are usually turned over to the Saigon government, this time the troopers had orders to kill every V.C. in sight, lest any had seen secret codes or plans in the embassy...