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...Foreign Relations (see box, following page), knots of other veterans buttonholed Senators and Representatives. One constituent of Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney complained: "He gerrymandered me out of his district on the spot." Another group found itself riding the Senate subway with Republican Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a "hot" hawk, in veterans' parlance. "Boys, we all want this war to end, but we want it to end in an honorable way," Thurmond told them. Chris Jiordano, a one-armed ex-Marine from Philadelphia, replied: "Senator, we ain't got any honor left...
...well to the left of Thieu; he has indicated that he would not be averse to striking some sort of accommodation with the Communist insurgents in the future. When and if he ever gets moving, Minh is expected to run much stronger than Ky, who styles himself "an ex-hawk turned dove" these days but is still basically an opportunist in search of a real constituency...
...many hours of Congressional visits, the veterans have spoken to anyone they could find. Several of the hawk Congressmen have been put off by the blunt assertiveness of the lobbying groups. These are the men with the audacity to, in one breath, advise the vets that their protest would be more effective if they looked more respectable, and in the next breath assert their unwavering, unwaverable support for President Nixon...
...Hawk to Dove. Though he prosecuted Calley to the limit of his ability, and was appalled by the scope of the My Lai massacre (once prowar, he is now a dove), Daniel feels no animosity toward the lieutenant. "You can't let these things become a personal matter," he said. "In the long run, it is simply a matter of whether justice is done. If that happens, our society wins...
...place somehow force any author to write with a special accent about the only city on earth where the likes ol Big Bill Thompson and Al Capone could coexist as civic leaders. In Chicago, there is indeed a certain interchangeability between politics and other lines of work. "The Hawk," Mike Royko writes, "was the outside lookout man at a bookie joint. Then his eyes got weak, and he had to wear thick glasses, so he entered politics...