Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the vigilantes threaten to become the Philippine equivalents of Latin American death squads. Says Haydee Yurac, a former member of Aquino's Presidential Commission on Human Rights: "It's a dangerous phenomenon that can easily get out of hand." Conservatives, including many officials of the Roman Catholic Church, counter that the people have a right to self-protection. The vigilantes, says Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, represent the "people reacting to the violence of the rebels." Says Army Commanding General Rodolfo A. Canieso: "It is the inherent right of a citizen to defend himself. Everything else...
...absent-minded way the United States in Vietnam may well have stumbled upon the answer to wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
What we've got to do is re-establish the linkage between our concern with the Soviet superiority in land-based nuclear weapons and the Soviets' concern with SDI. SDI is very useful for developing offense-defense linkage. One way for us to counter their offensive buildup is to defend our missile sites. We should make clear to the Soviets that we'll do this only to the extent necessary, given the threat that their missiles pose to our deterrent. We tell / them that we're going to protect not our population but our deterrent, and that we're willing...
...Orange Free State, and apartheid looks alive and well. The Afrikaner driving his bakkie (pickup) rides alone in the front seat, while his black laborers squat in the back. Outside, some blacks sit eating bread and drinking milk they have bought from the nearby corner store, which has a counter for natives only. There is no obvious hostility here, just a sense that this is how things are, and always will be. As the Lord made them...
Harvard Coach Alex Nahigian probably will counter with the same four pitchers that started in last weekend's sweeps of Army and Columbia: Chris Marchok, Jim Chenevey, Bob Baxter and Kevin Curtin. In its collective 27-2/3 innings last weekend, the starting foursome allowed only 10 hits and 3 runs...