Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Iran as a sign of good faith. They also discussed the idea of trading weapons for hostages...
...with Israel. In any case, the Israeli businessmen were authorized by Peres to resume contacts and strike a deal with the Iranians. The executives turned to Adnan Khashoggi, a famed Saudi Arabian wheeler-dealer and an extremely wealthy businessman. He got a long shopping list from Tehran that included Hawk antiaircraft missiles and radar-guidance equipment for them, antitank missiles, and spare parts for jet fighters...
Lebanese terrorists influenced by Iran released one of their American captives, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, on Sept. 14, 1985. According to Israeli reports, President Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for Israel's help in securing Weir's freedom. Five days later Iran got some of the Hawk missiles and guidance equipment that had been on the shopping list relayed through Businessman Khashoggi. They are said to have been delivered by a DC-8 cargo plane that was once owned by a Miami-based air-transport company. The aircraft took off from Tabriz, Iran, disappeared from radar screens over Turkey...
...last week, a Cabinet counsel agreed that a worker who flunks his first test should undergo drug treatment, but there was some dispute over whether a second failure should result in firing. Presidential Counsel Peter Wallison objected that dismissal "would be punitive." Shot back Education Secretary William Bennett, a hawk in the drug war: "It's meant to be punitive." Noting that his own plan for getting rid of drugs in schools called for expulsion of second-time offenders, Bennett asked: "How can you be harder on kids than you are on tax-supported federal workers...
...embassy spokesmen in the capital city of La Paz and Defense Department officials in Washington tried to downplay the matter, headlines in Bolivia and the U.S. were blaring the news: in the first use of a U.S. military operation on foreign soil to fight drugs, Army Black Hawk helicopters, armed with .30-cal. machine guns and escorted by about 160 U.S. soldiers, had been flown into the South American jungle to assist Bolivian authorities in wiping out that country's production of cocaine...