Word: counterthreat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York showing six young men standing before a building with clubs in hand. In an age of Black Panthers, white vigilantes, and apparently millions of armed and angry individuals, there would already seem to be a surfeit of quasi-military partisans. Threat, however, tends to breed counterthreat. Out of the people traditionally identified with the word ghetto has come an unusual group called the Jewish Defense League-whose members posed before a synagogue for last week's ad and called themselves "nice Jewish boys...
...refuses to go along, Washington has threatened drastic reductions in its own contributions-currently 37% of the entire U.N. operating budget. Russia's counterthreat: any punitive action would force Moscow to "face the necessity of reviewing its attitude toward the United Nations...