Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defensive Hawks. Complicating the U.S.-Israeli arms agreement-politically, at least-is the fact that the U.S. is simultaneously undertaking to sell arms to one of Israel's Arab neighbors. After a show of pique last week, Jordan's King Hussein decided to purchase $350 million in U.S. arms, with some strings attached. Hussein, who is paying for his weapons with funds supplied by Saudi Arabia, sought 14 batteries of Hawk ground-to-air missiles. Congress first rebuffed the Administration's request for approval of the sale, but it reversed itself last week after Ford promised that...
...Middle East aid package may come in for some trimming. At present it calls for as much as $650 million for Egypt and $250 million for Syria and Jordan in aid, plus approval of a $350 million air defense system for Jordan, most of which involves 14 batteries of Hawk surface-to-air missiles. The largest item is up to $2.2 billion for Israel. As Defense Minister Shimon Peres prepared to fly to Washington this week to complete negotiations, one of his aides joked that the shopping list would include "everything that begins with the letter a-a tank...
...warned that any Sinai disengagement must be followed by further negotiations over the future of the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Jordan's King Hussein was in a frosty mood, principally because Congress has drastically chopped his request for $350 million worth of antiaircraft weaponry, including 14 batteries of Hawk missiles. In Damascus, Syria's President Hafez Assad was courteous but stiff; later Assad's Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian view. In Israel, as she made...
...been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that is due to my people ... God and history will remember your judgment." Then, as he stepped down, he murmured the words that were to serve as an epitaph...
...putdowns. Besides nellies, effeminate gay males are called twinkies, sissies or queens; they do their drinking in vanilla bars, swish joints or fluff parlors. The all-purpose term queen is used in many combinations: a drag queen wears women's clothes, and a chicken queen (or chicken hawk) prefers sex with underage boys...