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Word: dovishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secondary changes in the new government also give it a slightly more hawkish tilt. The hard-line Moshe Arens took over responsibility for Arab affairs from the dovish Ezer Weizmann. Labor's first Health Minister refused to serve under Shamir; his replacement is inevitably more hawkish. And Zevulun Hammer was chosen by the National Religious Party to replace the long-tenured Yosef Burg, reflecting the general merger of religious sentiment and extreme nationalism, expressed in its most alarming form by Member of Knesset Meir Kahane...

Author: By Laurie A. Mylroie, | Title: Shifting Gears in Israel | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...seem to be the stuff of which best sellers are made. But when the author is Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the Administration's outspoken hawk, some publishers are willing to take a chance. Perle wants to write a novel about his arms-control struggles with the more dovish former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, now the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Perle has circulated a five-page outline for his first work of fiction, and bidding for the book has reportedly passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bureaucrats: To the Highest Bidder, a Perle | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Schell, if you remember, is the sanctimonious New Yorker staff writer who penned the hopelessly whiny, self-righteous. Fate of the Earth, which many on the Left and in the Dovish Center embraced as the anti-nuke Bible...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Bumper Car Philosophy | 8/10/1984 | See Source »

...Dovish and hawkish tendencies are clear, but the players sometimes behave atypically. For instance, only Clifford, a moderate, suggests a formal declaration of war; Schlesinger, usually a hardliner, says that the Soviets' stepped-up submarine activity is just for "theatrical purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Theater of War | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, 56, was the only serious alternative candidate. A former political science professor at Georgetown University, she was a longtime Democratic activist. Like her fellow neoconservatives, however, she was repelled by the dovish drift of the Democratic Party, which occurred as she was turning more resolutely antiCommunist. As a Reagan pet, she has had an unsual degree of influence in shaping policy. But as a prospective National Security Adviser, she had obvious drawbacks. In dealings with colleagues as well as adversaries, Kirkpatrick tends to be everything McFarlane is not: high-strung, argumentative, ideological, organizationally disheveled, and candid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaning Toward a Team Player | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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