Word: counterattacking
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...reasonably orderly withdrawal turned into a rout." Hundreds of fighter planes were left behind intact on regional airfields, and masses of valuable equipment ? essential if the government ever hoped to mount an effective counterattack ? were abandoned...
...which sits astride Route 14, the main inland north-south road. South Vietnamese air force F-5s and A-37s bombed and strafed Communist positions around the city, while ARVN forces were hurriedly ferried to the outskirts of Ban Me Thuot for what looked initially like a full-scale counterattack...
...23rd Division to the defense of Ban Me Thuot. But the North Vietnamese 320th Reserve Division, which was never actually committed to the fighting, set up an impregnable half circle on the western side of the city, forcing the ARVN regiments to take up positions for a counterattack twelve miles east of the city. In three days of fighting, the Communist troops, mostly elements of the 25th Autonomous Regiment, virtually destroyed the 1,200-man ARVN force; its remnants ended up as stragglers in the endless refugee stream pouring down Route 7 toward...
TIME'S Jerusalem correspondent, Marlin Levin, and Reporter Daniel Drooz were both on the scene during the fedayeen raid and Israeli counterattack on the Savoy Hotel. Their report...
...counterattack such forces, Bernardin calls for a renewed emphasis on both faith and moral principle, but he places an equally heavy emphasis on the need for social justice. His fellow bishops apparently feel the same way. In one significant action last week, the bishops opposed "efforts to use food as a political and strategic weapon," and called on "the whole Catholic community" to fast at least two days a week in order to help the hungry. Much more controversially, the bishops voted in a closed and heated session to authorize their pro-life committee to question Nelson Rockefeller...