Word: counterattacking
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...first time since 1927, when marines landed in Nicaragua, that U.S. forces had intervened in any Latin American nation. Yet if ever a firm hand was needed to keep order, last week was the time and the Dominican Republic was the place. In seven confused days of coup, counterattack and mounting warfare, the small Caribbean island republic had experienced a bloodbath surely as violent, and certainly more prolonged than the Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles against Fidel Castro...
Khaki Uniforms. After three days, the Reds withdrew under steadily mounting counterattack by government forces. Moving into Binhgia, Vietnamese Marines found a macabre scene. Village and environs were strewn with 32 Viet Cong and 60 government dead...
...Reds' setbacks are the result of a stiffer U.S. and Laotian government policy. U.S.-supplied T-28s are crippling Pathet Lao supply lines. The Reds could counterattack massively on the ground, but they apparently fear U.S. retaliation. Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma has survived with the help of the rightists, who have not tried a coup to take over the government for fully six months-although there has been an occasional, embarrassing mutiny among neutralist soldiers. During a recent Paris conference of the Laotian factions, Souvanna stood firm against unilateral concessions to the Reds. King Savang Vatthana got so vexed...
...strategic targets. Then a force of 1,000 Congolese army troops launched a two-prong invasion which caught the rebels by surprise. Coming from the north, one column overran the port area and airfield. The other column skirted the city, attacked from the south. When the rebels tried to counterattack, a government armored car's machine gun was waiting for them. The battle raged on for eight hours before the rebels finally fled, but it was one-sided all the way: more than 450 rebel dead littered the streets. The Congolese army claimed that only two of its troops...
...Communists are the aggressors, not us," insists Khanh. "If we were to go back to the north, it should be termed a counterattack." The U.S., hoping to avoid a direct attack on North Viet Nam as long as possible, was vexed at Khanh's cries but in a way sympathetic, for his outburst reflected the frustrations of a people who have been at war for the better part of two decades...