Word: counterattacks
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...Grant of Privilege." Eisenhower outlined his own counterattack against Communist infiltration: "To begin with: all of us ... must remember that the Bill of Rights contains no grant of privilege for a group of people to destroy the Bill of Rights. A group-like the Communist conspiracy-dedicated to the ultimate destruction of all civil liberties cannnot be allowed to claim civil liberties as its privileged sanctuary from which to carry on subversion of the Government...
...counterattack left a bad taste, and Nixon soon toned it down to a rational explanation of what the fund was all about. Reporters circulating through his audiences the rest of the trip found that even visiting Democrats seemed sympathetic to Nixon, and were not especially outraged by the fund story. But by the time his train pulled into Portland, Ore. late Saturday, Nixon was tight-lipped and grey-faced. He was well able to handle his audiences, but he was hardly prepared for what was going on behind...
...hedgehogs NATO planners mean mobile defense units which would be free to dig in almost anywhere, surrounded by their own armor and infantry perimeters and by minefields. Aim of the hedgehogs is to break the enemy mass and to direct it into channels. The defenders would counterattack with atomic weapons, harry the canalized enemy laterally from the hedgehogs, blast him from...
...friends," said T.U.C. Boss Arthur Deakin, bluff, levelheaded general secretary of Britain's biggest union (Transport and General Workers). "Now you're going to hear from the other side." A lean Liverpudlian, Tom Williamson, boss of the 800,000 General and Municipal Workers, pitched in with the counterattack: "All over Europe, people are scared-who by? Not by Britain or her Allies, but by the Soviet Union." Mineworkers' Leader Ernest Jones chipped in with rough-hewn Socialist logic: "If British miners were called upon to rearm in the interest of American capitalism and the Tory party, there...
...Counterattack. In Syracuse, N.Y., Patrolman Nicholas Margiasso set up an electric timing device on a busy thoroughfare to trap speeding motorists, wondered why all cars passed cautiously, until he found two small boys a block away with signs: "Danger. Slow down. Police ahead...