Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walker issued a denial, said his program had no connection with any outside society, then went into hiding to map his counterattack. Finally, shouting at the top of his lungs, Walker gave out a statement to newsmen: "We have Communists and we have the Overseas Weekly. Neither one is one of God's blessings to the American people or their soldier sons overseas. Immoral, unscrupulous, corrupt and destructive are terms which could be applied to either...
...small, the truce ended. Grace once again tried to break Pan Am's strangle hold on Panagra's operations. Charging Pan Am "with every conceivable obstructionist tactic," Grace in 1951 petitioned CAB for a Miami tie-up between Panagra and National Airlines. In a bristling counterattack, Pan Am accused Grace of seeking the tie-up only because of its holdings of 174,000 shares of National stock...
...counterattack attempts to deal with realities. Instead of a smelter, it calls for the construction of tin ore concentration plants to step up the ore-metal percentage. U.S. conditions for the loan are tough but businesslike. In addition to laying off some 8,000 nonproductive workers, the government must promise to divide its tin corporation, Comibol, into several separate government-owned companies operating under guidance of competent foreign consultants...
...quick, Kennedy rejected any aspersions on his patriotism, and the campaign began to get more intense at long last. In Bristol, Tenn., Kennedy's voice was icy. "I support the President." he said. "I did not need to be reminded of that yesterday." But the Nixon counterattack continued, and several reporters thought they saw a return of the old Nixon campaigning style. Kennedy, said Nixon in Springfield, Mo., "is just as strong in his opposition to Communism as I am, but because of his lack of knowledge and experience, he urged a course of action [for President Eisenhower...
...there was plenty of o'erwhelming still to come. The Southern filibuster, aimed at blocking passage of a civil rights bill, had begun (TIME, Feb. 29). To wear it down, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen kept the Senate in round-the-clock session. In counterattack the Southerners kept their colleagues coming and going all through the night with regular quorum calls. Meanwhile Texas' Johnson was hard at work doing what comes most naturally: dealing, persuading, cajoling-all in an effort to shape a meaningful moderate bill whose basic purpose is to guarantee Negro voting...