Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon, convinced that prolonged test suspension would play fast and loose with U.S. military posture, argued for resuming low-fallout tests. And last week the advocates of full test suspension, centered in President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee under M.I.T.'s James Rhyne Killian, loosed a bitter counterattack...
...Communist governments were bound to note-unchallenged by the big-talking Communists. The Chinese Communist threats to conquer Formosa, and the stepped-up attacks on the offshore Nationalist island of Quemoy (see FOREIGN NEWS), last week brought an equally powerful presidential warning that the U.S. would not hesitate to counterattack, and it brought prompt deployment of U.S. fighting forces. New element in the Quemoy warning: the U.S. was prepared to retaliate by bombing the attacker's home bases if necessary...
...possibility that a counterattack on Red China might provoke the Russians had been weighed and allowed for before the Quemoy decisions were made...
...last week the rebels halted a Havana-Santiago train, killed most of the armed guard aboard, rescued a rebel leader being transported for trial and. after waiting vainly to ambush the expected counterattack, retired in leisurely fashion. Two days later they severed the SantiagoGuantanamo highway, blocked traffic for three hours, again withdrew without interference. Nightly, the rebels sniped at the army garrison guarding the Yateras waterworks, which supplies the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...
...rebels held their best prisoner bag of the 21-month-long fight: one major, four captains, twelve lieutenants; they liberated almost 300 soldier prisoners through the International Red Cross. Their weapons position was improving. In the summer counterattack they took good booty-500 pieces, including five bazookas, an armored car, two flak guns...