Word: counterattacks
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...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...
...there is an attack on Turkey by the Soviet Union, it would not mean a purely defensive operation by the U.S., with the Soviet Union a privileged sanctuary from which to attack Turkey." Just how and where the U.S. might use its Mid-East power (see map) to counterattack he left to the Russians to guess...