Word: counterattacking
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...Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. knew how to get it back fast, but only at the cost of reducing it to ruins, and turning much of Viet Nam's heritage to crumbled stone. So the Skyraiders, wheeling and diving over Hué in support of the allied counterattack, at first used only guns and rockets no larger than 2.5 in. in order to protect the city's buildings and royal tombs and monuments. When after four days the Communists still held more than half the city, heritage was reluctantly sacrificed to necessity and the bombs loosed on the Citadel...
...Ireland became Kirby's chief lieutenant. The day after Kirby lost control of Alleghany to the Murchison brothers in the famed proxy "battle of the century" (TIME cover, June 16, 1961), Ireland got his orders. Said Kirby to Ireland, who was to direct the successful 21 year counterattack: "If you win, you'll be known as that brilliant young company president. But if you lose, you'll just be a middle-aged man looking for a job." Scouring the country, Ireland eventually came up with enough stockholding allies to let Kirby regain control from the Texans...
...battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry, part of a probing arm of Operation Coronado 9. The Vietnamese troops were in the lead boats, and when rockets began to rip through the flotilla's armor plate, Major Pham Nha, the Vietnamese Marine battalion commander, made an instant decision to counterattack. "We're in an ambush and we are going in," ordered Nha, without waiting for artillery and air support. Seconds later, Nha's troop carriers rammed into the canal bank and his Marines stormed ashore...
...Just four years later, the university debating society has elected a girl president. She is pert, brunette Seraldine Jones, 21, daughter of a Liverpool schoolmaster and now heiress to an office once held by William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and Ted Heath. There'll be no nonsense about a counterattack either. "I trust that men who find my presence in the union disturbing," said Geraldine, "will stay away...
...evidence began to point to Lewin himself, who, after all, contributes political satire to The New Yorker and anthologizes it as well. Since he bears a longstanding grudge against think tanks and their war games, he may have decided to counterattack with some peace games. As he said in a TV interview on New York City's Channel 13, he hopes the book will jog the country into a "more candid discussion of the possibilities of the elimination of war." The book implies that there are conspiracies afoot in the Government to perpetuate war. Lewin is indulging...