Word: counterattacking
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...invasion of Costa Rica (TIME, Dec. 20) moved quietly through its second week, Costa Ricans relaxed. The invaders were going nowhere. The defending troops were deployed but had not yet launched a counterattack; it seemed unlikely that they would have to bother...
...able to sleep from midnight until 3 in the morning. Over breakfast the general explained disconsolately that he had not been able to take his objective. Although a thousand shells had been poured into the village, the Communists had held their line and mustered enough strength to send a counterattack within a mile of the general's headquarters. "We will take it today," he said with determination. "We must. We attack...
Victorious Greek troops squeezed a tighter & tighter grip on the Mount Gramos area last week. Before them, General Markos Vafiades' desperate rebels mounted one counterattack after another in an agonized effort to save the last escape hatches for moving their heavy equipment into Albania. Rebel prisoners said that Markos and his "government " had already crossed the border...
...Hugging the ground, we crawled back up into the kunai grass on our hill and started returning the fire. Seizing the opportunity for a bluff, Stafford yelled out 'Here come Gurkhas! Here comes the army!' His men took up the cry and moved forward in a counterattack, blasting with carbines and Tommy guns. The Communists vanished back into the hills. Five of the six handcuffed women, caught in the murderous crossfire, lay crumpled on the ground...
...more enviable than the West's. They were simply beating against the West's weakest salient to win either its surrender-or the even bigger prize of a new conference, with Ruhr coal on the table. What could the U.S. do about it? Washington's diplomatic counterattack-which must strive not merely for present Russian withdrawal but for guarantees against future assaults-could start with a formal protest to Moscow (which was being readied this week). The next possible steps: U.N. discussion; economic sanctions, including the closing of the Suez and Panama canals to Soviet ships...