Word: counterattacking
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...other means of delivering a devastating counterattack. Strategic B-52 and B-1 bombers based in the U.S. and on Diego Garcia could lay down carpets of high explosives on Iraqi targets. They would be supported by F-14 interceptors and attack planes from the U.S. carriers in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Those ships are more than 600 miles from Iraq, out of range of Iraqi jets and Exocet missiles, which in 1987 badly damaged the patrolling frigate U.S.S. Stark, apparently accidentally, and killed 37 of its crew. The carrier-based planes would be refueled...
...even booksellers have come under fire. For months, the Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., has campaigned to get stores to remove Playboy, Penthouse and similar magazines from their shelves. Last week the 1,300-store Waldenbooks chain, the nation's largest, launched a counterattack in the form of full-page ads in 32 U.S. newspapers, denouncing "censorship efforts" and "an increasing pattern of intolerance...
...made fun of them. In the new version, a raunch artist taps into the grudge a white working-class male may hold against the beneficiaries of affirmative action and liberal sympathy: minorities, the handicapped, gays. They get all the breaks, he figures; now what about me? His counterattack is to bad-mouth them with paranoid intensity. And that's where the sick threat and thrill come...
...Biology Department promptly launched a counterattack as head tutor Sye T. Plasm said of Physics, "Those weenies think they're so cool just because they study quantum mechanics. Whoop-de-friggin...
Still, the fact that some Republicans had been caught up in the initial fascination with the Moynihan plan led the White House to launch a hasty counterattack. Budget Director Richard Darman presented Congress with a plan for a Social Security Integrity and Debt Reduction Fund that would require the Federal Government to gradually stop using the surplus to cover Government operating costs. The plan would not begin to take effect, however, until after the 1992 presidential election, and then only in stages. "Phased integrity," Republican Senate Leader Bob Dole mischievously called...