Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neutralist General Kong Le launched a counterattack against the Pathet Lao but was unable to dislodge them from the hills above Mobile Group 13's escape route. With the help of several defecting neutralist battalions, the Reds smashed their way through Kong Le's headquarters at Muong Phanh, and turned to head for the Mekong River. A courageous but often inept commander, Kong Le fell back with his battered troops to Ban Na, on the southwestern edge of the plain. He managed to salvage ten tanks, but lost nine armored cars and four antiaircraft guns. All week long...
...Brasília threatened to become too hotly rebellious for comfort. Still spouting defiance, Jango flew south to still loyal Pôrto Alegre, homeground of his firebrand brother-in-law and capital of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul. From there, Goulart hoped to lead a "counterattack of the legalist forces." Vowed Jango: "I will not resign. I will not put a bullet through my chest. I will resist...
From Hungary, in the midst of a ten-day visit, Khrushchev grimly ordered into print the "resolute counterattack" he had threatened last September. Next day seven pages of Pravda were devoted to a scalding speech of excommunication prepared privately seven weeks ago by Soviet Ideologist Mikhail Suslov for this very contingency. Suslov, who can be as foulmouthed a Marxist as Mao, damned the Chinese for "apostasy," "petty-bourgeois nationalism," "neo-Trotskyist deviation" and "hysterical" pronouncements that aligned Peking's leadership "with the most aggressive circles of imperialism...
Texans, predictably, mounted a strenuous counterattack. Governor John Connally called Belli's tirade against Dallas "reprehensible." Attorney General Waggoner Carr told University of Texas law students that Belli's behavior "should shock all of our bar members from coast to coast...
...white counterattack in California reflects one natural consequence of the Negro's militant position: a backlash reaction, derived from the notion that "the Negro is pushing too far, too fast," and that he is also threatening the unskilled white man's job security. James P. Mitchell, Eisenhower's onetime Labor Secretary, now San Francisco's human-relations coordinator and a friend of the Negro feels that "militancy could quite easily antagonize important people who are now prepared or preparing to do something. What Negroes have to remember is something they tend to forget: that they...