Word: counterattacked
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...came to go in; they neatly infiltrated between the fortress' HQ and its southern strong point. Five times last week the French sent out tanks and infantry to ease the throttlehold; they killed 260 Communists and captured 14. At week's end the French launched a strong counterattack, claimed 1,000 casualties. But every night the Red moles came back...
Appeal to Bolivar. Guatemala's Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, showing no such restraint, delivered a fiery counterattack, directly naming the U.S., and made the biggest oratorical hit of the week with conference delegates. Rhetorically demanding: "What is international Communism?" he lashed out at "imperialism" and "foreign monopolies," then called the U.S. program "only a pretext to intervene in our internal affairs." Toriello went on to recall "the Big Stick, the tarnished 'dollar diplomacy' and the landing of the U.S. Marines in Latin American ports" that marked U.S.-Latin American relations in the old days before nonintervention became...
...management was frustrated by a lack of demand for their services, and fearful of their aging equipment and personnel. Time was running out, warned Premier Chen Cheng, newly designated nominee for vice president, and heir-designate to President Chiang Kaishek: "If we wait another three to five years [to counterattack the mainland], our chances of success will diminish to almost nothing." Furthermore, "the enemy will be encouraged to attack...
Despite this new counterattack, John Bricker was having no part of the compromise proposal. Nor were the Democrats, at the moment; they were too busy enjoying the fun. The chance for a stalemate, therefore, increased, i.e., after bitter debate, the Bricker amendment would be sent back to committee for "further study," and would emerge from time to time to cause more bloodshed. This was exactly what the Administration did not want. To avoid it, Eisenhower was considering the ultimate step: a TV appeal to the nation...
...gaily decorated pier. Flag-waving thousands lined the 20-mile route to Taipei; firecrackers were so thick that the prisoners waving from their trucks were often hidden in haze. Premier Chen Cheng proclaimed "the advent of doomsday" for Communist China's rulers, and posters urged ACCELERATE PREPARATIONS FOR COUNTERATTACK...