Word: counterattacks
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...this code signal was broadcast over walkie-talkie radios early last week, some 65,000 Iranian troops and militia launched the most ambitious counterattack of the 20-month border war between Iran and Iraq. The prize: the Iranian port of Khorramshahr, which the Iraqis had captured soon after crossing to the Iranian side of the Shatt al Arab at the start...
Zghayar said he hoped that the P.L.O. could cause enough Israeli casualties to convince the Begin government that it must deal with the organization that Israel has scorned so far. Warned Zghayar: "We will counterattack and this time we will hit more northern settlements. We have that ability, both with rockets and artillery. If they come back into southern Lebanon, we are going to hold our positions and we will fight back. They give us no other choice...
These and other features of the American defense plan greatly increase confidence that the U.S. could mount a potent nuclear counterattack even if the Soviets were to strike first. The system also has numerous and sophisticated built-in safeguards that make the danger of accidental war quite remote. True, there have been false alerts, and Ground Zero's Roger Molander recalls a bizarre incident in the mid-1960s when a newly installed radar warning system mistook the rising of the moon for a massive Soviet missile attack. Still, the fear that a faulty computer chip, a flock of geese...
...reply, Volcker has begun to counterattack with the argument that the Reagan Administration is as much to blame as anyone for the nation's worrisome economic situation. Volcker charges that by letting the deficit run up toward $100 billion, the White House has all but abandoned its fight against inflation. This has left the struggle to be waged singlehanded by the Federal Reserve, and that, Volcker feels, is asking too much of the American central bank. It is those Ozymandian budget deficits that are soaking up private capital, driving up interest rates and draining the economy of productive investment...
Brown had a tough time mounting any sort of counterattack after that disastrous shift. The Crimson defense shut down the Bruins' offense, as the blueliners aggressively cleared the crease in front of goalie Cheryl Tate of both Bruins and pucks. The only threats came from the sticks of Brown co-captains and linemates Pam Bopone and Amy Crafts, but Tate foiled several good chances, including...