Word: counterblow
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...built over the next three years at a cost of $5 billion to the U.S., will be based in Western Europe but manned by American servicemen, thereby tying the U.S. inextricably to Western Europe's defense, but also raising the risks to Europe of a Soviet counterblow. In a second, more conciliatory action, the NATO powers also voted to ask the Soviet Union to enter into arms negotiations to reduce the numbers of mediumrange missiles on both sides...
Intensified Scare. In the deadly Middle East pattern of blow and counterblow, Nasser's threat was made in response to an Israeli raid into Egypt -which in turn was in retaliation for continued Egyptian shelling along the Suez Canal. As the barrages continued into their fifth week, Israel counted ten more dead...
...buying Gallé vases." But tastes change. The art-nouveau revival dates from 1952, when London's Victoria and Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art launched the rediscovery...
...seemed more willing than Diem to risk casualties. In the south, 800 guerrillas staged a predawn assault on Chala, overran half the outpost, but were repulsed by savage machine-gun fire. When paratroopers and B-26 bombers hurried to the rescue, the Reds shot down one B26. Yet the counterblow was effective; villagers reported that the fleeing Viet Cong suffered approximately 400 casualties. Northeast of Saigon, government troops ambushed a Viet Cong battalion, killed or wounded 69 of the enemy. Also northeast of the capital, a three-day government offensive ended with 40 Viet Cong dead. West of Mytho...
Would the U.S. blast Moscow with nuclear weapons because a Soviet ground force nibbles at Hamburg, when the destruction of New York is the certain counterblow? Probably not, reason many Germans. And if the Russians reached the same conclusion, it would serve as a downright invitation to them to try. If the U.S. concedes unchallenged conventional superiority to the Russians, argued former Secretary of State Dean Acheson before a German-Ameri can Club meeting in Bonn last week, the Russians might be able to rack up a series of small but important "profits" in Europe, "without setting off a nuclear...