Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less vividly, many another speaker at G.O.P. gatherings across the country last week joined Dick Nixon in a Republican counterattack against the Democratic drive to wring political prosperity out of economic recession (TIME, Feb. 17). All week long the Democrats kept up their offensive. The governors of Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington-Democrats all-dispatched a joint telegram to President Eisenhower urging a "practical program" (i.e., plenty of federal funds) to combat "the growing national recession." On Capitol Hill, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson outlined a ten-point antirecession program...
...week's end cautious Generalissimo Franco overruled army demands for an all-out counterattack in Africa, and his Rabat embassy announced that Spain was ready for "friendly talks" about Ifni's future. To make his friendly gesture more emphatic, he dispatched two cruisers and four destroyers to hover off the Moroccan city of Agadir, just north of Ifni...
...made off with some trucks and mules. The Spanish, who last month jailed a few local Moslems for demonstrating in favor of King Mohammed, had quietly reinforced the Ifni garrison with several hundred paratroopers and Foreign Legionnaires. Shouting their battle cry of "Long Live Death," the Legionnaires led a counterattack into the hills that drove most of the invaders back across the frontier and cost them an estimated 100 dead, 200 wounded. Announced Spanish casualties: 5 dead, 43 wounded...
...shortly get its military house in order and its scientific talents mobilized. Beyond this short-range response, the Vice President pointed to a great opportunity to strengthen free nations by a program of free trade, investment, mutual economic assistance and rising living standards. Such a program would provide a counterattack against Communism in areas where the Communists have no weapons but misery...
...Counterattack. At week's end, having successfully sabotaged Saud's attempt at mediation, the Russians had the Syrian issue back before the U.N. Assembly, where they hoped to extract a maximum of propaganda mileage from their charges against Turkey. But in one of his best speeches, U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge launched a biting counterattack that left Gromyko sulking in his chair...