Word: counterplans
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...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...
...Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding men of "known dishonesty" from political office...
Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...
...Arabs proposed a counterplan which represented a high-water mark in their willingness to compromise: a "democratic" Palestine in which the Jews would have "constitutional guarantees against discrimination and guarantees safeguarding their cultural and language rights," representation in the government proportional to their population. Said Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, Secretary-General of the Arab League: "I am looking forward to the day when there will be a Jewish representative for Palestine in the Arab League...