Word: counterattacks
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...took place against the background of the battle over Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's proposal to cut U.S. troops in Europe by one-halt. It was an ill-advised and ill-timed proposal, but some Nixon critics feel that the President greatly overreacted. As part of the counterattack on Mansfield, the Administration sought to link the arms limitation issue with the troop reduction issue. During the talks, the Russians have insisted that American nuclear weapons in Europe-aboard Sixth Fleet carriers in the Mediterranean, for example-must be included in any arms-limitation agreement. The U.S. has argued...
Little Headway. Next day the Pakistan army dispatched another infantry company from Jessore to stage a counterattack on Kushtia. At Bishakali village, halfway to Kushtia, the new company fell into a booby trap set by Bangla Desh forces. Two Jeeps in the nine-vehicle army convoy plunged into a deep pit covered with bamboo and vines. Seventy-three soldiers were killed on the spot, and dozens of others were chased down and slain...
...transport aircraft. After the Senate voted nay, the plane was temporarily saved by a House-Senate compromise extending funds through March of this year. With that mandate about to expire, the battle has been joined once more. This time the SST's supporters have mounted a highly professional counterattack that threatens to overwhelm the aircraft's critics...
...Peking that U.S. policy does not threaten its interests. But he also knows that three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars are massed just across the DMZ. To discourage Hanoi from sending them to attack the ARVN troops in Laos, Nixon deliberately left open the possibility of a South Vietnamese counterattack across...
...encouraged rather than an absolute restriction to enforce in all cases. And many government and private agencies went ahead with campaigns to limit population. But Pope Paul is not so easily contradicted. Now. acting through his Secretary of State, Jean Cardinal Villot, 65, he has begun a quiet counterattack, attempting to marshal Catholic forces against all official programs, national or international, that propagate artificial contraception...