Word: counterattacking
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Ambiguous Policy. The counterattack left 'the C.P.I, bewildered, demoralized and divided. After first retreating into silence, some party leaders issued a weak statement saying that the party did not oppose Sanjay's program but feared that it might push Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point program into the background. Other C.P.I, bigwigs urged their party to join the other opposition parties and end its ambiguous policy of "running with the hares and hunting with the hounds." But a hastily organized Communist campaign to enlist popular support by protesting rising prices never got off the ground, and some...
...campaign aides confused and rattled; at times late in the week, the President looked particularly grim. Said a campaign official: "We recognize that something has to be done, and fast, but what that something is, nobody seems to know." Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was being primed to lead a counterattack against Carter this week in hopes of putting the Democrat again on the defensive. The G.O.P. plan is for Rocky to hammer away at Carter's finances, raising questions about his campaign contributors and the tax records of his family-held peanut farm and warehouse. Some of Ford's advisers...
...army would back him and the moderates if it came to a showdown. Moreover, previous leftist campaigns during the past three years-none of them so serious as the current one-fizzled out when the moderates proved able to hold their ground. Late last week, hints of the counterattack by Teng's group could be found in radio broadcasts from China emphasizing "party leadership" and "unity," code words for anti-radical policies...
...PALESTINIAN SOLUTION. We took the West Bank from the Kingdom of Jordan in 1967 as the result of a successful counterattack against the Jordanian forces. What is now known as the Kingdom of Jordan is part and parcel of the historic land of Israel, or Palestine, and the British mandate applied to both banks [of the Jordan River]. It is more than two-thirds of the whole territory of historic Palestine. The ethnic group known today as Palestinian Arabs is divided between the East and West Banks. All the inhabitants of Jordan are Palestinians. If Jordan is courageous enough...
That aroused the liberals, who were already on the defensive and felt that the Hartford appeal strengthened a dangerous trend. Last week the latest in a series of responses to Hartford was unleashed by a 21-member task force of the Boston Industrial Mission.* It is a counterattack called "The Boston Affirmations" and it constitutes a theological rallying cry against any retreat from social action...