Word: counterblows
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...blockade of Cuba is far from over. But the U.S. took a firm stand and the Russians retreated with abject haste. That fact will be felt on every cold war battleground. At any number of points, Khrushchev can, of course, try to reverse his initial retreat by a counterblow, but any possible move will be harder for him than before the Cuban adventure...
...south coast, a force of 1,300 wellarmed, well-trained anti-Castro freedom fighters last week launched a major campaign to rid their homeland of Communist dictatorship. They were defeated within two days by a better-armed, better-led enemy, who withstood their attack and delivered a crushing counterblow. The defeat, as all the world sensed, was a tragedy not only for Cuba's exiles. It was a debacle for the U.S. as well. Through the offices of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon, the U.S. had done everything to assure success short of providing an air cover...
...military planners are forced to assume that the U.S. must suffer the first blow in any future war. This is basically a defensive strategy, keyed to what a lover of Westerns would recognize as the "virtue [of] drawing second and killing your man." It rests on a massive atomic counterblow-"one of the most unlimited and inhumane strategies ever devised by man." The ultimate peril of "massive retaliation," says Ways, is that the U.S. will become more and more reluctant to apply it to small incursions, be crowded more and more into a corner where nothing else is left. Ways...
...card game in order to threaten only. If ever it knew that there were Egyptians ready to shed their blood and to meet force by force, it would have given way like a harlot." Nasser is a counterpuncher who has won a number of prelims by meeting blow with counterblow. All things considered, he has come far; the question is, how much farther...
Stevenson was thrown on the defensive by Eisenhower's Korean speech and the General's promise to go to Korea. As the Stevenson campaign train pushed across New York and Massachusetts, worried Stevenson strategists put their heads together to devise a counterblow. The result of their deliberation was a passage added to Stevenson's Boston speech on Communism less than an hour before it was delivered. Said the Democratic candidate : "The root of the Korean problem does not lie in Korea-it lies in Moscow. If the purpose of the general's trip is to settle...