Word: counterattacking
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...were hustled into key marginal seats, and Blair gave a speech condemning the Lib Dems' policies on crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters "37 32 22" - his predicted share of Thursday's vote for Labour, Tories and Lib Dems. Close enough: the actual result...
...maneuvering leading up to this week's summit, the denunciations have reached new heights. The campaign represents a tactical shift by Moscow; while the Soviets still maintain their traditional stony attitude about Western interference in their own "internal affairs," they are now going on the counterattack. In reply to the continued U.S. criticism of Soviet emigration policies and Reagan's recent rebukes of the oppressive nature of Soviet society, the Kremlin under Mikhail Gorbachev has taken the offensive with a rancorous propaganda drive. Its goal is to paint the U.S. as a nation teeming with human rights violations that...
...nearly reached the Elbe, about 50 miles to the west. Hitler talked of leaving Berlin by April 20, his 56th birthday, of flying south to organize an invulnerable redoubt in the Alpine forests of Bavaria. But then came fits of wild euphoria, when he ordered his shattered forces to counterattack. "The Russians have overextended themselves so much that the decisive battle can be won at Berlin," he declared. Then came fits of despair, when he vowed to die in his besieged capital. "Should this fateful battle of the German people under my leadership fail," he said, "then the German people...
Last week, as the news of Rock Hudson's illness spread, AIDS researchers and patients alike were hopeful that his plight, and his decision to reveal it, might finally dramatize the threat of the growing epidemic and bring calls for a more effective medical counterattack. Says Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien, who has treated hundreds of AIDS patients at New York University Medical Center: "It takes something like this to make the public aware that not enough is being done." --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles, with other bureaus
...counterattack, Ethiopian soldiers took only five prisoners. They did not understand the Italian arms-up attitude of surrender, Mockler reports, and simply found an enemy thus exposed an even more convenient target for rifle or scimitar. The invaders retaliated with mustard gas, dropped by plane. The war was won from the air. Seven months after the invasion, Ethiopia was defeated, annexed, and soon turned into a rigid Fascist colony...