Word: counterattacks
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Canon Law. Ieronymos' effort to pack the Synod provoked a counterattack. Bishop Ambrosios, Metropolitan of Eleutheroupolis, called Ieronymos a despot; the Primate thereupon suspended Ambrosios for three days. "You are violating canon law, Your Beatitude!" cried Ambrosios. "You are afraid of the light, Your Beatitude...
...A.T.P., now grown to 96 members, tried a legal counterattack, but a British court ruled that it had no jurisdiction in the case. So the players' group, which includes such U.S. competitors as Arthur Ashe, Cliff Richey and Stan Smith, decided that it had to stand on its own. After a three-hour meeting in London's Westbury Hotel, Drysdale announced: "This is the saddest statement I have ever had to make, but we feel we have no choice but to instruct our members to withdraw." After another meeting-which A.T.P. Executive Director Jack Kramer characterized as "wrestling...
...engaged in our Watergate coverage are Harriet Baumgarten and Robert Goldstein, who have researched all our Watergate-related cover stories (seven in the past eleven weeks). This week, for the fourth time, Goldstein was again on the cover assignment, gathering material for our story on President Nixon's counterattack against his critics. For his research, Goldstein spent much of the week closely reading the President's statement of last week and comparing it with his earlier speeches about the scandal...
Death Revealed. Marshal Ivan S. Konev, 75, Russian World War II hero who led his troops to the historic linkup with U.S. soldiers on the Elbe River in 1945; after a long illness; in Moscow. A stern leader and wily strategist, Konev engineered Russia's first serious counterattack against the invading Nazis in 1941, three years later became the first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria...
...People must realize that the Israeli attack on the Arabs is justified by the fact that one of the Arabs' major goals is to demolish Israel. How can a country strive to survive without some means of counterattack? After all, the Arabs attacked Israel to begin with. Should such a tiny country not fight back...