Word: counterattack
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...reality of Reagan's deep budget cuts began to hit home, the party's young bulls clamored for O'Neill to lead a counterattack. But the Speaker had decided months ago on a different strategy. It would be ruinous, he figured, for Democrats to attack so popular a President. Instead, he would give Reagan all he wanted, sit back and watch the President fail. It was a precarious, cynical approach, and O'Neill would never admit publicly that his objective was, in effect, to lose now and win later by default. So devoted...
DIED. Claude Auchinleck, 96, British field marshal who in 1941 opened the North African campaign that led to the defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; in Marrakesh, Morocco. After winning the first battle of El Alamein, Auchinleck was relieved of his command for refusing to counterattack Rommel west of Cairo...
...evening Black Troop had used stones to set up a defensive position in the yard. They expected a counterattack. In the cookhouse, meanwhile, soldiers started to prepare tortillas. Then came an order: "Chicken to the pot." Laughing and tripping over one another, the soldiers finally managed to catch 20 or so chickens around the farmhouse. As night fell, Red Troop arrived; a group of women and children also came to seek protection. A nightlong thunderstorm kept the guerrillas away, but it also obliged the troops not on guard duty, officers and men alike, to sleep on the veranda, with...
...counterattack by Labor's moderate loyalists is unlikely to halt the momentum toward a new political alignment. Labor's right wing has been increasingly unhappy for some time, and, led by the popular Williams, the dissident Social Democrats could eventually attract a wide range of voters. That would seriously disrupt the country's two-party system. Said Brian Walden, a respected TV commentator and former Labor M.P.: "Nothing will ever be the same again in British politics." -By Jay D. Palmer, Reported by Bonnie Angela/London
...proposal to limit smoking in restaurants, stores and other public places. Smokers who violated no-smoking sanctuaries would have had to cough up a $15 fine. The measure was supported by Chemist Linus Pauling, Photographer Ansel Adams and other notable nonsmokers. The tobacco industry led a $2.3 million counterattack with ads suggesting that the measure heralded the arrival of Big Brother, would work hardships on small businessmen who could not afford to construct no-smoking areas, and would waste the time of law enforcement officials...