Word: counterattack
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...pattern of attack and counterattack was as relentless as it was bloody. Many in Israel consider the adventure in Lebanon a disastrous and costly mistake, and the national unity government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres is determined to get the I.D.F. out of Lebanon by summer. The I.D.F.'s orders, as Peres described them to the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee last week, are "to stay put not one minute longer than necessary," but he later added: "The terrorists will not dictate our steps...
...pool. While he does not look like someone who would frighten even a PTA board, he is a scourge to the giants of corporate America. Last week newspapers across the U.S. carried full-page ads with the scare headline IS ICAHN FOR REAL? The ads were part of a counterattack by Phillips Petroleum against Icahn's attempt to take over the firm...
...Reaganauts see Star Wars as opening the door to a new, more hopeful form of deterrence. At present, nuclear peace paradoxically depends on "mutually assured destruction" (MAD): an attack by one side guarantees a devastating counterattack. Star Wars, argues McFarlane, would obviate the need for this balance of terror. Says he: "You would move away from a strategy based on the ability to threaten with offensive power to greater reliance upon systems that don't threaten anybody." A switch from offensive to defensive deterrence would indeed be a radical change, but not necessarily for the better. Since it is hard...
...their Christmas Day offensive, the Vietnamese attacked three camps almost simultaneously, sending tens of thousands of Kampucheans fleeing into Thailand. The resistance forces staged a counterattack, though they were no match for the opposing Vietnamese troops. The Vietnamese attacks were denounced as "contemptible" by the U.S. and as "cruel and savage" by Thailand, which put its border forces on full alert. As in the past, the offensive is likely to continue until the monsoon returns in late spring. This time, however, the Vietnamese are evidently hoping to end their annual campaign in a far stronger position than in previous years...
Frustrated by Washington's paralysis in the face of terrorism, Secretary of State George Shultz advocated retaliatory strikes against bomb throwers and gunmen, lest the U.S. become the "Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger preached caution, likening a counterattack to shooting a gun into a crowded theater in the hope of hitting the guilty. That debate is likely to intensify in 1985. Meanwhile, the continuing threat forces leaders into ever tighter cocoons and inflicts on ordinary citizens the alarming realization that all are potential targets for a crazed...