Word: counterattacks
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...Kong Le's retreat caused consternation in Vien tiane. With his left-right-center coalition fast coming unstuck, Premier Souvanna Phouma was fearful that Kong Le's troops would join forces with a right-wing army just southwest of the Plaine des Jarres and launch a joint counterattack against the Reds that would surely precipitate civil war. Desperately he appealed to Britain and Russia, overseers of the Geneva agreement, for quick intervention to stop the Pathet Lao's flagrant violations of the ceasefire...
...Egyptian dogs," spat a tribesman. The few Egyptians taken prisoner seem dazed and dejected. Private Amer Hussein Bahid, 24, of Cairo, was due for discharge in January after three years' army service. Instead, his company was airlifted to San'a and rushed off to launch a counterattack at Beit Miran. Said he: "About 25 miles from San'a we were ambushed. My company never got a chance to fight. In a few hours, more than 100 of us were killed, and I surrendered. Nasser has apparently had to call up the reserves. Complained Sergeant Ibrahim Mohsin Alkati...
...like shooting ducks for the Viet Cong," said one U.S. officer. The stunned survivors burrowed into the slimy mud of the paddies and stayed there, refusing to continue the assault. Desperately, Captain Kenneth Good, 32, a West Pointer from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, sought to rally the Vietnamese for a counterattack, but he was stitched through the neck and chest by a burst from a Viet Cong automatic rifle. The government troops stayed...
John F. Kennedy's hasty and white-lipped counterattack against Blough showed the President's belief that he had been doublecrossed: in persuading the United Steelworkers to hold the wage line, the President thought that he had an unspoken promise from Blough to hold the price line. But Kennedy, like Blough, based his case on the exigencies of the world market. A price rise in steel. Kennedy told the nation on TV. would set off another U.S. "inflationary spiral'' that "would make it more difficult to withstand competition from foreign imports, and thus far more difficult to improve our balance...
...After three weeks, Kaul felt emboldened to make a probing attack on the Chinese lines. Following an artillery barrage, 1,000 Indian jawans (G.I.s) drove the Chinese from the lower slopes of a hill near Walong. It was a costly victory, for the Chinese launched a massive counterattack through and around Walong, driving the Indians 80 miles down the Luhit valley. At Se Pass, the Chinese victory was even more spectacular. Having spotted the Indian gun emplacements, the Chinese plastered them with mortar and artillery shells, and then sent forward a Korea-style "human sea" assault. Two Chinese flanking columns...