Word: counterthrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modest attack on Palestinian strongholds in retaliation for the entry into the occupied West Bank a few days earlier of a six-man P.L.O. squad from Jordan. The problem, Begin concluded, was that given the state of tension, a small-scale Israeli action would lead to a sharp counterthrust by the P.L.O. and then to a full-scale assault on Lebanon by Israeli forces. For that reason, Begin decided to set aside the proposal - at least...
...counterthrust to Gromyko s speech, Haig issued a statement summarizing the contents of a note that Reagan had sent to Brezhnev the same day Though the President wrote that the U.S hoped to forge "a stable and constructive relationship" with the Soviet Union, he accused Moscow of seeking "military superiority" over the U.S. and using force in regional conflicts to win a "unilateral advantage." Said one aide: "We figured that no matter what Gromyko had to say it was worthwhile trying to get in the last word." -By James Kelly...
...Friday, at the end of a week of thrust and counterthrust across the embattled border, Israeli forces staged a naval raid on Jiyah, 13 miles south of Beirut, and Palestinians responded by sending yet another volley of rocket fire into the settlements of northern Israel. By that time, the 14 days of continuous fighting had become the heaviest between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978. The Palestinians and Lebanese had suffered by far the greater number of casualties: some 450 dead and 1,500 wounded, most of them in a bombing...
...bureaucracy's fighting his budget plans by leaking information to the press? There is just a hint that he is. He talks about the Soviets "snarling back" at him because he called them criminals, cheats and liars. He has learned Rule 1: Every presidential thrust produces a counterthrust...