Word: counters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tight French defenses on the Morice Line had been partially flooded, and the rebels had slipped through them the day before from a Tunisian base camp, carrying money and supplies to reinforce rebels hiding in Algeria's Kabylie Mountains. They obviously hoped, by a bold stroke, to counter the growing impression (TIME, June 22) that the tide had turned against them in Algeria. But at dawn a French armored-car patrol spotted the rebels, and within an hour more than 3,000 French troops had encircled the tiny orange grove...
...drifts with the deep-down water, broadcasting strong pings of ultrasound that can be heard by listening ships on the surface. Dumped into the Gulf Stream, the Swallow buoys proved that Stommel's theory was exactly right. About 8,000 feet under the famed stream is a Counter Gulf Stream carrying cold water southward at ⅓ of a knot...
Last week, in a long-awaited "counter-proposal," Gromyko made it clear that Russia had no interest in such a bargain. Instead, he brazenly announced that Moscow would "grant" the Western powers one more year of occupation rights in Berlin-provided they would reduce their forces in West Berlin to "symbolic" levels (about 50 from each nation), would liquidate all anti-Communist propaganda and espionage organizations in the city, and would agree, when the year was up, to accept an all-German committee (equal membership on both sides) to talk about "reunification." In a final burst of arrogance, Gromyko added...
Washington's answer is that 1) there is no special U.S.-British partnership, and 2) France cannot get into it. It hopes not to antagonize De Gaulle but to counter his demands with sweetly reasonable explanations of the impossibility of complying with them. Those who dealt with the general in World War II know that such tactics have never before persuaded De Gaulle to abandon what he considers legitimate national goals...
FREE FOOD OFFER is being made by A. & P. for first time in Baltimore area to counter competitive grocery chains' trading stamps, may be extended into other highly competitive areas. A. & P. mails coupons for 2-lb. box of sugar worth 25?and pint of mayonnaise worth 35?to all listed in city directories...