Word: countering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state and library officials lit up their cigars too early. Just when they thought the battle was over, a group of Cambridge residents launched a counter-offensive. The group charged that the library, because it contained both a museum and the archives, would bring more tourists, scholars and cars into already-congested Harvard Square. "A distinction was made as to the relative attractiveness of a museum versus a library," City Manager James Sullivan explains. "From the beginning, the community was divided on the issue." During the early 1970s, tensions within the community rose steadily until a major fight developed...
...Institute officials put their plan in action at the Master's garage on DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive. About a hundred SDS protesters waited outside--word had circulated that McNamara might try to sneak out through here--with some pro-McNamara counter-demonstrators. Sure enough, the door opened and a car pulled out. In the commotion that followed, some students tried to force an open path, others blocked the way, and hundreds ran over to join the action. It took some time before they realized that the car's occupant was not Robert McNamara, architect of the war, but Graham...
Ulam added the specific steps Carter outlined to counter-balance Soviet presence are merely "cosmetic measures...
...notes, "policy emerges when concept encounters opportunity, "and Nixon realized that the bloody border clashes between Soviet and Chinese troops in the summer of 1969 presented just such an opportunity. Fearful of a pre-emptive attack by Moscow or an all-out war, the Chinese were looking for a counter-threat to Soviet pressure. At that very moment, the U.S. was subtly signaling Peking that it was interested in a fundamental change in their relationship. There followed what Kissinger calls "an intricate minuet, so stylized that neither side needed to bear the onus of an initiative, so elliptical that existing...
...same city as the tour, I would spend a lot of time laughing at my initial impression and its outrageous incongruity with the rest of my experience. Except for a small group of soldiers guarding the national monuments in Havana, which the government fears may be targets for counter-revolutionaries, Cuban streets were generally unpatrolled, even by policemen. Even so, there was little rowdiness or theft and no sense at all of the menacing atmosphere that enshrouds so many American cities...