Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of scorn, the narrator has a sort of amused sympathetic view of people who don't understand him: "Well, they never seen the Northern Lights/They never seen the hawk on the wing...
...Congress last year to cut $7.8 billion from the Pentagon's fiscal 1976 budget request; the 8% reduction (to a final budget of $90.5 billion) was the largest since 1953. This year Lloyd and many other members of Congress have become Pentagon converts. Says he: "I am no hawk, mind you. But there has been an increase in the Soviet capacity to wage war. One on one we are still better. But Americans, including myself, perceive a lessening of our international influence. I want this nation strong. I want sophisticated weapons in the hands of our troops...
Performance at 4, 7:55; Don't Look Now at 5:55 and 9:50; Sunday-Tuesday: Frank Capra's State of the Union at 4 and 7:50; Howard Hawk's His Girl Friday...
JORDAN, which committed only two brigades to the 1973 war and suffered small losses, will get 14 Hawk antiaircraft batteries from the U.S. in 1977. It has also obtained 42 secondhand American-made F-5A jet fighters from Iran and 36 of the newest version of that plane-the F-5E-from Washington. In addition, Amman is busily improving its vintage M48 Patton tanks by installing diesel engines and more powerful guns...
...private conversations with newsmen and on secret minutes of his meeting with Israeli leaders. Although it was banned by censors, a revised edition was later approved. According to Golan, Kissinger criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon as lacking strength and imagination, called Defense Minister Shimon Peres "a pseudo hawk" who terrorized his colleagues, and dismissed Rabin as "too small a man for the job." Rabin was equally candid about Kissinger: "It isn't possible to believe a word that man is saying." Asked about Golan's book, a State Department spokesman said: "We are not going to comment...