Word: counterplan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's not much we can do," he said. "We don't have a counterplan to take up the slack. All Harvard can do is to express its dismay at this decision...
...BERLIN WALL. "I always refused to be a second-guesser, but I do say this, that the staffs, military and diplomatic, had been going over and concocting every kind of counterplan to anything that they might see occurring that was damaging to us. I think this is one they may not have thought of. At least, I had never thought of it. Once it was started and you accepted, I think there wasn't much you could do about...
...Soviet Plan. The Soviets at first damned the plan. "A conspiracy," said Soviet Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin. "It is unacceptable, of course." But a fortnight ago Tsarapkin came back with a counterplan that carried the ring of compromise. He accepted the U.S. suggestion to ban the big, controllable tests. In addition, he suggested that all powers "voluntarily ban, for 'four or five years,'" the low-yield underground tests that could not be monitored. Meanwhile, the Soviets would support the U.S. call for an all-out drive to develop seismic methods to detect such elusive blasts. For all its pitfalls...