Word: counterthrust
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...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...
Jack Kennedy carefully chose his ground for his counterthrust on religion, and it was plainly hostile ground. Looking something like a parson himself, dressed in severe black suit and black tie, he strode purposefully into the ballroom of Houston's Rice Hotel last week to address and be questioned by the Greater Houston Ministerial Association under the eye of a statewide TV. Nervously he worked his thumbs together, rubbed his fists back and forth, sipped water several times as he waited through the introductions and opening prayer. "What's the mood of the ministers?" he asked his press...
Every week from now until election, TIME will carry the news of the campaign, describing and examining the candidates, appraising and analyzing the issues, and chronicling the thrust and counterthrust between the two great parties-missing neither the fun nor the significance of that fascinating show and key world event that comes every four years in the contest for the U.S. presidency...