Word: alarmistic
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...forces in Europe and Japan in half over five years, arguing that allies should pay for more of their own defense, which he says now costs the U.S. $150 billion a year. Critics note correctly that his defense planks would tempt Soviet adventurism, but Jackson dismisses such talk as alarmist. To ease cold war tensions and revive arms-control talks, he would "aggressively negotiate" with the Soviets...
...negative one. Already critics have challenged the legitimacy and efficacy of policies aimed at reducing discrimination, such as affirmative action. Minorities have barely gotten to their knees, but are already being pushed back down. Within this context, the call for an end to desegregation is not the least bit alarmist...
...most outspoken Jewish media, especially Commentary and the once-liberal New Republic, have sounded alarmist tones about Jackson's trip to Syria to release downed Navy pilot Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr., and a $200,000 contribution by Arab groups to Jackson's Chicago-based public service group, People United to Save Humanity...
...prepare Americans for what they see coming, many experts on terrorism fear the worst. Declares former CIA Director Richard Helms: "It would be surprising if a wave of terrorism didn't hit the U.S." New York Senator Daniel Moynihan, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, was even more alarmist at a New York conference on terrorism last week: "The prospect of 1984 being the year they bring the war to our shores is real. We should assume it and not be surprised...
This pessimism was not shared back in Washington. Nitze's recommendation for a new proposal was turned aside, and Administration officials began wondering if their man in Geneva had become an alarmist and defeatist. Eagleburger kept Nitze from joining Shultz on a tour of West European capitals in December, partly for fear that Nitze would contaminate the leaders along the way with his gloomy views. "Whoever Paul's been talking to over there," said Perle, "has got the poor man in a state of despair." Richard Burt was harsher: "Nitze's utterly spooked; he's gone...