Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, carrying more than 1,000 paratroopers (including some Vietnamese) to Dienbienphu. They made a neat drop and took the enemy, about 800 strong, wholly by surprise. After a series of sharp fire fights in the tall elephant grass, the Communists were routed and dispersed. They launched a suicidal counterattack by one company to cover the retreat of their main force. Though the French said they killed more than a hundred of the enemy and that their own losses were much smaller, they did not come off unscathed. Some were cut down by a group of Communists out for mortar...
...other" committees, Gallagher added, "do not have full regard for the truth and hide the subversive effect of their own unsubstantiated attacks on education and religious freedom." But this is no reason, said Gallagher, for harassed educators to tar Jenner's committee with the dirty brush used to counterattack Joe McCarthy. He concluded: "Where we find honesty and integrity coupled with high principles and sound operations, with an absence of headline-seeking and a genuine desire to strengthen free institutions...
...British colonial officer who went down with the Rooseboom. She became a sort of spiritual mother for the derelicts. A few days before she died, she took a Bible that someone had salvaged and read a religious service to all her companions. Not long after that, Gibson organized a counterattack against the murder gang and threw them overboard...
...when an air force general appeared before General Zahedi's hideout with a tank, did Zahedi emerge and take command of a field already won. The General-Premier and his officers were as surprised by the victory as the people themselves. The army had planned to counterattack Mossadegh on Friday; the people beat them to it by two days...
...Administration, which thinks there is too much loose talk about a coming recession, is planning its own verbal counterattack. Government officials have been advised to take every opportunity in their speeches to play up the strength of the economy. To keep better tabs on business conditions, the new Government agency, ABEGS (Advisory Board on Economic Growth and Stability), is making special studies on such weather-vane industries as autos, appliances and apparel, so that any serious trouble can be spotted early...