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...Backing. The talks were already in jeopardy. The Israeli Cabinet refused to nominate a representative to deal with Jarring until it received a satisfactory reply about the Russian missiles from the U.S. Explained Tourism Minister Moshe Kol, normally a Cabinet dove: "The talks will not succeed if a mutual confidence with the U.S. does not continue." Foreign Minister Abba Eban. who is likely to be the Israeli representative, concurred with the decision. However, he is known to believe that the talks should proceed even if the truce is permanently broken, as long as Israel has full U.S. backing...
Later his children besieged him with antiwar arguments. Back in Washington, O'Neill interviewed top officials off the record and found all of them privately opposed to the war. As a result, he took the then "lonesome" step of breaking with L.B.J., and became the first outspoken dove among New England Congressmen. He has not wavered. In a recent House speech, he urged his colleagues to "change the perilous course of this nation." And he added: "Truly, my children awakened me three years ago to the realization of how great the concern is, how deep the love of country...
...aggressive Democratic lawyer who often conducts heated discussions with his three sons until 4 or 5 a.m. at his home in Auburn, N.Y. The talk has pushed Michaels from hawk to dove, but as a political realist he has a healthy respect for backlash: "Many people in my generation thought that the National Guard should have killed ten more at Kent State, and I am afraid they're expressing the majority view...
...Liberals are nothing but vampires in dove's clothing," said Marianne Burke, a member of the Progressive Labor Party. "They want to suck the blood out of the anti-war movement...
...Israel last week, one effect of the Rogers proposals was to exacerbate a slowly swelling division between hawks and doves. Israel has no hardhats; the confrontation so far has been largely theoretical and intellectual. To illuminate this conflict, TIME interviewed a representative hawk and dove, Israeli-style...