Word: counterthrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., charging that its foreign mission board was "discriminating against conservative missionaries" who preached the virgin birth and other fundamentalist doctrines. That same year Mclntire founded a splinter congregation, the Bible Presbyterian Church, headquartered in Collingswood, N.J. In 1948 he organized the I.C.C.C. as a counterthrust to the newly founded World Council, which he branded "apostate" and an "ecumenical monster...
...thrust and counterthrust took place at one of a series of group-therapy sessions designed to promote understanding between Houston's police and Negroes. The six-week programs have been going on since last September. On each of six consecutive Fri days, as many as 200 policemen, divided into groups of 12 to 15, meet with equal numbers of citizens-both black and white-to thrash out differences. The fourth batch is now attending the three-hour sessions, each of which is guided by a trained psychologist...
...Quang Tin battle was the biggest in a week of continued enemy pressure and Allied counterthrust in the five northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam that comprise I Corps. After the Reds struck in a brief terror attack on the ancient imperial capital of Hue, U.S. Marines from the Seventh Fleet launched Operation Bear Bite. A force of some 2,000 leathernecks streamed ashore 21 miles northeast of Hue in an amphibious and heliborne assault. Sporadic fighting also broke out along the Demilitarized Zone, where the Marines discovered and destroyed no fewer than 77 Communist bunkers, stacked with food...
Obviously, an important question raised during the week of thrust and counterthrust was that of security against future Viet Cong attacks. But it is doubtful whether anything approaching real security can be achieved in a guerrilla war. "I don't believe it will ever be possible to protect our forces against sneak attacks of that kind," said Defense Secretary McNamara after Pleiku. Quinhon occurred despite stringently tightened security, including U.S. sentries patrolling the hotel's roof...
...fact is that the campaign, though it originally gave promise of developing into an exciting confrontation between two sharply differing philosophies, has since degenerated instead into little more than a contest between two sharply differing personalities. There is almost none of the usual election-year exchange of thrust and counterthrust, charge and countercharge over really substantial issues. Instead, there is invective and counter-invective...