Word: counterattacked
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...city of any importance the length & breadth of Poland. They aimed at air bases, fortifications, bridges, railroad lines and stations, but in the process they killed upward of 1,500 noncombatants. The Nazi ships were mostly big Heinkels, unaccompanied by pursuit escorts. Germany admitted losing 21 planes to Polish counterattack by pursuits and antiaircraft...
Finally, just before 8 a.m., Pfc. Paul Healey, 20, led a counterattack through the front gate, personally killing five V.C. with grenades and his M-16 rifle. Minutes later, two paratroop platoons from the 101st Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the rooftop helipad...
...Chinese, not surprisingly, blame Viet Nam for the border troubles. They claim that the current animosities predate the bitter four-week war in 1979, when China launched what it called "a self-defensive counterattack" against Viet Nam. At the time, Peking claimed it was "punishing" Hanoi both for "provocations" along the border and for Viet Nam's invasion of Cambodia two months earlier. The Vietnamese, of course, see the situation in a different light. A Hanoi radio broadcast last May charged that China had "renewed its acts of war against Viet Nam," and blamed the Chinese for border infractions...
...counterattack, Vice President George Bush, in a speech on Friday, announced the creation of five new regional interdiction centers that will be modeled on the South Florida experience. Based in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, El Paso and Long Beach, Calif., each new office will be assigned representatives from all the major military and intelligence bodies and will make use of equipment from other agencies. Explained one Bush aide: "The military has to go on training missions anyway. If we know of a trouble spot, why not ask the Air Force to fly a plane with radar to that spot...
...counterattack was swift and vicious. She was twice set up for drunken-driving arrests. A state van followed her car while she collected evidence of pardon fixes. Blanton's aides found a girlfriend of a convicted murderer who was willing to say that Marie had stolen credit cards for shopping sprees. Before Marie was fired in 1977, she went...