Word: hawked
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...Senate insider. Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has praised Reagan for a "courageous" decision on the MX but has declined so far to endorse the basing mode. Opposition to Dense Pack is being led by South Carolina Democrat Ernest Rollings, an influential military hawk, who argues that "the Soviets would love nothing more than to see us throw away billions of dollars on a system that could be easily countered...
...retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan pins. Republican Congressman Cooper Evans of Iowa has been running commercials charging that Opponent Lynn Cutler was absent from 25% of her meetings of the Black Hawk County board of supervisors. Democrat Cutler responded by attacking Evans for missing 40% of the meetings of the House Agriculture Committee. Says Cutler's press secretary Chris Gresock: "Once the tone of a campaign is set, the other party is obliged to respond...
...runs--Axinn, besides being a poet, is a former college dean, "designer-developer" and pilot. His flight experience, along with nature, constituted the two sources of inspiration for the poems in his recently released collection. The Hawk's Dream. Indeed, the descriptions of flight and forest scenes provide virtually the only energy in the poems. His overuse of the plural, a common tendency among contemporary poets, makes his work disturbing and unfocused. He describes his subjects and then does not seem quite sure what to do with them...
MANY OF THE POEMS in The Hawk's Dream start out with seemingly objective descriptions of nature and then shift gears into romantic apostrophe. It's as if Axinn grew bored with the berries and nuts and scrambled for a new theme to revitalize the poem before it flopped. He twists his words and superimposes one theme over another to prevent the poems from becoming dull. Axinn introduces the poem "Appointment in Samara" with an explanatory story...
Currently in the pipeline to Israel is about $1.5 billion in assorted hardware, including eleven new F-15s, 800 more M113 personnel carriers, 200 self-propelled howitzers, 200 improved Hawk antiaircraft missiles and some 1,000 Maverick and Sidewinder missiles. Overall, military aid to Israel this fiscal year is expected to total $1.4 billion. Of that amount, $850 million will be in loans. Congress is considering the Administration's request that Israel be given $1.7 billion in military aid for fiscal 1983, $1.2 billion of it in loans...