Word: counterattacking
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...Bowdoin goalie Cathy Leitch, which would have rolled into the twines if it handed landed in a puddle in the crease. The inside halfs, freshmen Greeley and Ingra Larsen, used their superior trapping ability and their strong all-around play to turn sloppy loose-ball action into a concerted counterattack...
...gave the people of South Africa?" While members of South Africa's ruling National Party shifted uncomfortably in their green leather seats, Colin Eglin of the opposition Progressive Federal Party last week sent his questions ringing across the chamber of Cape Town's Parliament. The angry counterattack from South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha: "I am not a weakling who tries to satisfy everybody. I have my own ideas and pattern for leading South Africa." Some of Botha's ministers have echoed similar pious themes...
...latest round of attack and counterattack had begun a week earlier when Israeli warplanes staged a strike on Palestinian guerrilla targets near the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon, killing three people and wounding 20. Two days later the Israelis struck again, this time hitting a guerrilla base at Damur, ten miles south of Beirut, killing five and injuring 25. After another two-day interval, the Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between...
From that beachhead, the Democrats are launching a wide-ranging counterattack to win both public and congressional support for their own tax plan. They are wooing two dozen moderate Northeastern Republicans considered "soft" in their support for the Administration's tax package, as well as 47 conservative Southern Democrats known as the "Boll Weevils," many of whom voted for Reagan's budget last month. A campaign-style "boiler room" has been set up so that members of Congress and their staffs can telephone constituents in 20 key Southern districts and urge them to persuade their lawmakers to vote...
...could not survive a first nuclear assault and deliver a counterattack. All the country's airbases, for example, could be taken out in a single strike. Nor can Israel afford the enormous expense of keeping warplanes in the air at all times as a deterrent to aggressors. Thus the country feels a particular vulnerability to nuclear blackmail. The Begin view: no Israeli government, or any other government in a similar position, could ever take the risk that a foe armed with atomic bombs would not use them...