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...behind the assault plan is Defense Minister Sharon, who is described as the "hawk among hawks" by a top U.S. official. Sharon is determined to wipe out the P.L.O. in Lebanon, reduce its influence in the occupied territories and thereby solve Israel's most serious security problem. In 1978 the Israelis invaded Lebanon with 10,000 men and 200 tanks, but failed to dislodge the P.L.O. This time they have 36,000 men massed in northern Israel...
...snlpe flinging itself about the sky in order to impress its female, with a faint laughing ululation such as children make when hooting with their hands in front of their mouths. He saw some sandpipers, or "teeter-tails," tipping their tails as they searched for invertebrates. A gray marsh hawk seized a dazed and chilly frog before his eyes, and half a dozen geese were still dawdling south of their nesting ground in passionate but wary pairs...
Pressure to begin strategic arms talks has been building for months. It intensified last week when Henry Jackson, a leading Democratic hawk, and seven other influential Senators (Robert Byrd, Sam Nunn, Lloyd Bentsen, John Warner, Howard Baker, Richard Lugar and Wilham Cohen) circulated a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter, urging the U.S. to negotiate with the Soviets "a long-term mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced level of forces." The resulting resolution, signed within hours by 24 more Senators, was designed to counter a more radical measure introduced two weeks ago by Senators Edward Kennedy...
...best approach, but it does help me understand AWACS, Hawk missiles, and why Mr. Begin gets upset. I'm impressed that we have been consistent with it through four presidencies...
...this debate I was in a lonely position. I was a hawk on defense and a dove on SALT, earning opponents on both sides. I was convinced we had to strengthen conventional forces. But I also saw an important role for SALT in our national security policy. I did not believe that arms control could by itself ease tensions. Indeed, if not linked to some restraint of the geopolitical competition, strategic arms control might become a safety valve for Soviet expansionism. Every tune there was a Soviet aggressive move, there would be appeals that the new tensions now made arms...