Word: counterattacking
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Brooke's statement was in response to a major Administration counterattack on Carswell's foes. In a letter to Republican Senator William Saxbe of Ohio, Richard Nixon denounced their opposition to his presidential prerogatives. "If the Senate attempts to substitute its judgment as to who should be appointed," he declared, "the traditional constitutional balance is in jeopardy" (see box). With that tactic, he thus made the issue an even bigger test of wills, and of his own prestige, than it had been before...
...most castigated figure in American life was the white liberal. Maligned by youth, by blacks, and eventually by himself, the white liberal has only recently begun to counterattack. Who went South to integrate Mississippi? he asks. Who supported the Warren Court? Urban planning? Pollution control? Open housing? But whenever the liberal begins to bolster his case, along comes some damaging new weapon to support the radical credo. The latest is a destructive anti-personnel device entitled The Liberation of L.B. Jones...
Last fall, after the area had been under Communist control for five years, government troops under the command of General Vang Pao recaptured it. There was little hope, however, that the plain could be held in the face of a determined Communist counterattack, and over the past few weeks a U.S.-organized airlift had removed some 15,000 civilians from the area (TIME...
...Counterattack. Now Ampex is paying the price of success. Its example has stimulated some of its music suppliers to become competitors, drop their contracts with Ampex, and begin making tapes themselves. Their activity adds to already vigorous competition from
...Ampex counterattack is led by Donald V. Hall, 33, vice president of the Chicago-based tape division. He is a mod executive who favors Edwardian suits and splashy ties, partly, he says, as an example to older Ampex executives, whom he is trying to persuade to think "pop." He also has come to admire the music that the young favor, and that helps him in negotiating with some recording stars. "These kids on records are saying something," he explains. "If you are an adult, and you shut them off, then you are not hearing what's going...