Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haled before a special congressional committee chaired by Maryland's veteran Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, Senator McCarthy replied with thousands of words of obfuscation and counterattack, identified not a single Communist Party member in the Government. The Tydings committee called his charges "a fraud and a hoax." The Truman Administration was part of the history of "20 years of treason," McCarthy insisted-as he kept on making headlines...
...Back. His enemies would counterattack, and the King knew it. On Monday some 200 leaders of the Communist and pro-Nasser parties met at Nablus to compose what amounted to an ultimatum. They demanded: 1) release and reinstatement of all pro-Nasser officers, including Abu Nuwar; 2) dismissal of Hussein's new Cabinet; 3) sacking of Hussein's Court Minister; 4) a promise not to invite to Jordan Roving Ambassador James Richards, President Eisenhower's special representative in the Middle East; and 5) expulsion of U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory...
Exposés & Affidavits. The Oregonian (circ. 230,850) was braced for the shocked reaction its exposé caused among readers. What it did not expect was a violent counterattack from its rival daily, the Oregon Journal (circ. 181,489). Soundly beaten on the story and unable to lay hands on the tape-recorded evidence, the Journal sent a reporter along with D.A. Langley on a hoked-up raid on an Elkins aide who had some tapes in his possession. The tapes were turned over to the Journal reporter, who allowed the Teamster organizer to copy them, and were then...
...Counterattack. In Youngstown. Ohio, when an elementary school was broken into, detectives traced the act to three small boys but failed to recover the one stolen item-the principal's paddle...
...National Guard, historically more powerful than the Regular Army in political battles, the hour had come for counterattack. Reviewing an Army directive requiring six months' active field training for new Guardsmen after April 1, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson labeled Guard Korean war recruiting "a draft-dodging business" (TIME, Feb. 11), and Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor lamented the inadequacy of the Guard's preparedness...