Word: dovishness
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When news of the text's dovish stance leaked last June, National Security Adviser Clark wrote fellow Catholics asking them to press the Administration views upon the bishops. The topic doubtless came up when Clark and President Reagan lunched with the Pope's top aide, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, in Hartford on Aug. 3. On Sept. 13, Weinberger sent Bernardin a carefully worded statement making the same points that Clark made later. In October, retired General Vernon Walters, a State Department troubleshooter, quietly visited Rome to brief Pope John Paul on the Administration's position on nuclear strategy...
...change the will of the electorate. It's undemocratic." The aide did admit, however, that the inquiry's findings could create overwhelming public pressures on Begin or other ministers to resign. "For us, it's a first step," said Janet Aviad, spokeswoman for Peace Now, a dovish popular movement that has been demanding a full investigation. "Our motto now is not to let up, not to allow any whitewashing...
Nacht believes that one of the center's major strengths lies in its political diversity: "We are viewed as quite dovish by the hawks and quite hawkish by the doves. And that, just as much as anything else, is what gives us our credibility...
...spot Peres last week placed a new name: Shoshana Arbelli-Almozlino, 55, a hawkish Knesset member and teacher, who went to Israel from Iraq. It was a shrewd choice, designed to give Labor more appeal among women and non-European Jews and to counter Peres' own relatively dovish image. In a meeting last week to hammer out the key top half of their final list, Peres sounded oddly hawkish himself. He accused Begin of inconsistency in regard to the occupied territories. "I don't accept Begin's statements," he said at one point. "He says...
Visitors to the White House have wondered at Carter's literal acceptance of dovish letters from Leonid Brezhnev. The ruler of a critical Middle East country showed another statesman a handwritten note from the President that was viewed by the recipient as a near insult, a naive and flawed view of the forces at work among Arabs. During the months that the Panama Canal treaties were being discussed, Carter worried in his secret meetings about the fact that the U.S. had never admitted guilt in grabbing control in the Canal Zone and demanding absolute rule there. His hang...