Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Honduras, are instructing a 1,000-man battalion of Salvadoran troops in fast-reaction techniques to counter guerrilla attacks. Later this year the Green Berets will train four 350-man Salvadoran battalions in cazador (hunter) tactics to seek out rebel units. Seventy-three U.S. trainers in Honduras are split into mobile teams to provide expertise sought by the Honduran military...
...lowest legal wage. The Sejm had intended to draw up new regulations giving the authorities freer rein to make arrests. But Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, issued a letter of protest, reminding the authorities that a further tightening of the legal noose would run counter to the spirit of Pope John Paul II's meetings with Jaruzelski last month. As a result, parliament agreed to reconsider the proposals...
...trip was just a start. Suddenly last week there was action everywhere as the Administration moved to counter increasing criticism from blacks and Hispanics...
...counter criticism, a volley of civil rights initiatives
...window, we rediscovered each other ("Hey, there's Noam!" "The punk kids made it!") and pondered whether, at a price, to order coffee, tea or gin. Back at North Terminal, only a grubby memory now, veteran squatters were getting comfortable in front of the stand-by counter, and newcomers were wondering how they would live through the night...