Word: counterattacks
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Frenchmen in the mass, alas, have succumbed to American fast food. McDonald's has hamburger dispensaries all over Paris, and Burger King has opened a shop on the Champs-Elysées. But the French have launched a spirited counterattack. Their ammunition is the croissant, the flaky, crescent-shaped roll that is as dear to French palates as scones to the Scots or Mom's apple pie to Americans. Gourmands are lining up for McCroissants at American-patterned restaurants rapides from sleazy St. Denis to the Boulevard St. Germain...
When it is invaded by a foreign substance-a virus or bacterium, say, or even the cells from a donated kidney or blood transfusion-the healthy body quickly mobilizes the immune system for a counterattack. Among the forces sent into combat are antibodies, tiny molecular missiles that attach themselves to the intruder's surface and help destroy the invader. They are highly efficient and selective; each antibody is so exquisitely designed that it matches up precisely with only one site on the invader or antigen, almost as if it were a key fitting into a lock...
After the Governors appeared in Washington, the Pentagon lost no time launching a counterattack. Testifying before the same House subcommittee, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown claimed that the MX would not increase irrigation problems, stating that once the system was built it would annually require no more water than the amount "consumed at twelve golf courses in the Greater Las Vegas area." During seven years of construction, the Air-Force would try to avoid disrupting the region by forbidding the estimated 25,000 to 50,000 workers to bring their families with them. This would obviate the need to build...
...angry White House immediately launched a counterattack. Press Secretary Jody Powell termed Kennedy's attack "cynical, self-serving, irresponsible and false." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance accused Kennedy of "misstatements ... both numerous and serious," and State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III asserted that Kennedy had got the commission idea from confidential briefings that Vance and Waldheim had given him. Finally, Carter himself said at his press conference that Kennedy's remarks had been "very damaging to our country...
...Washington Post? In fact, the statement appeared last week in Pravda, which went on to denounce America's "unprecedented militarism" and "claims to worldwide supremacy." Adopting the time-proven tactic that the best defense is a strong offense, the Soviet press, radio and television conducted a nonstop rhetorical counterattack against mounting criticism in the U.S., Western Europe and the Muslim world of the U.S.S.R.'s invasion and conquest of Afghanistan...