Word: countercampaign
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...never had to run for office, at least not in the conventional sense. But he too is a natural campaigner, as anyone who saw him pick up a child in Red Square and tell him to "shake hands with Grandfather Reagan" would testify. He was running a kind of countercampaign, seeking to present himself as a radical reformer who is revitalizing the Soviet Union and toning down conflict between the superpowers -- but also as a confident leader who would not get pushed around by any Reagan sermonizing...
...that the tide of the four-year civil war was turning in its favor. Some 4,000 Salvadoran troops fanned out through the country's eastern departments, where the guerrillas are dominant, to harass the rebels and to protect the elections. For their part, the elusive guerrillas launched a countercampaign under such slogans as "No to the Electoral Farce; Yes to the People's War." Despite an F.M.L.N. promise to avoid disrupting the elections, roving guerrilla bands occupied remote towns and set up roadblocks along the country's central Pan American Highway, confiscating from passers-by the national identity cards...
...doubt that such a boycott could succeed. But the would-be censors appear to be winning the war before the battle begins. Already the networks are sounding defensive, warning that if sex is successfully restrained, censorship of news and opinion will follow. Civil libertarians are readying a $2 million countercampaign in support of diversity, called People for the American Way and featuring TV public-service ads produced by Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family. (Moral Majority has announced that Falwell will demand reply time whenever a Lear ad appears.) Most important, advertisers are uneasy. Chairman Owen Butler...
...numbers, the more difficult it would be for the courts to permit the first execution." The battle is not over, of course. At least 19 states have passed new statutes that permit capital punishment for specific crimes, and a group of district attorneys is now trying to organize a countercampaign not unlike that of the L.D.F. The idea is that the court's ruling had hinged on objections to the capriciousness with which capital punishment was administered and therefore if the conditions calling for death are rigidly defined under new laws, they may pass constitutional scrutiny...
...Countercampaign. Normally, the matter would have ended right there, but the issue of the punishment was, by now, thoroughly entangled in the effort to defend tradition. Most of the suspended students came from distinguished families, and the families hired distinguished lawyers to carry on the fight. Meanwhile, a group of students led by newly elected Student Council President William L. Tazewell began a countercampaign to get Fletcher fired from his job of student director. At semester's end Tazewell reported to his council: "A majority of the student body have neither faith . . . nor trust in ... the administration...