Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ohira is also a strong supporter of relations with China, Reischauer said. He added that Ohira is regarded as "more on the dovish side" of questions on defense spending than Fukuda had been...
Carter is fast losing ground among voters with his economic policies. More surprising is the vote of no confidence in his foreign and defense policies. Until his recent get-tough approach toward the Soviet Union, his actions were too dovish for much of the electorate. Only a minority of those who expressed an opinion (44%) think he has been effective in dealing with the Russians. Responding to a related question, 48% find his policies too soft, 1% too hard, 36% just about right. More than half (53%) favor helping African countries threatened with rebellions aided by Russians or Cubans...
Barry Blechman, 34, assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The most "dovish" of the experts, he headed the defense analysis staff of Washington's Brookings Institution until last fall, when he joined ACDA. At Brookings he directed a mid-1977 study, "The Soviet Military Buildup and U.S. Defense Spending...
...negotiations with Begin before entering the government, Yadin and his party failed to win any concessions. Nevertheless, inclusion of the D.M.C. in the coalition may have a moderating effect on the government. A nonideological grouping of former Laborites and other political outcasts, the D.M.C. is by no means dovish. But it is pragmatic, and in coming into the government, the D.M.C. has reserved the right to take independent positions on matters involving the West Bank; it may demand debates on the issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. A D.M.C. presence in the government will also dilute the influence...
Moreover, Israeli citizens and their leaders are growing increasingly militant as they read Arab statements that seem to them intransigent. Aharon Yariv, the dovish former Information Minister in Yitzhak Rabin's last Labor government, warned last week that if U.S. peace efforts fail, "war becomes a definite possibility." Returning from a state visit to Rumania, Premier Begin defiantly noted that his government includes three generals who led Israeli armies to victory in previous wars. Said he: "We shall be ready to defend ourselves...