Word: hawkish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nixon's ABM announcement dashed hopes that he would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since...
...policy to some degree more hawkish than the administration's policy...
...balance as a goal of national security policy. Like Nixon, he is pragmatic enough to reverse his policy positions for political reasons. If Kissinger can convince Nixon of the dangers in the arms race which Republicans promised during the campaign, Laird would probably compromise, as he did on his hawkish views of the war. Laird did admire the way McNamara controlled the Pentagon, so he will probably continue the management program in some form despite his public outcrys against "cost-effectiveness...
M.I.T. claims that Rostow's hawkish advice to Lyndon Johnson had nothing to do with the rejection. In 1964, after a four-year leave of absence, Rostow told the university he would stay in government, thereby offering his resignation. Now M.I.T.'s economics department does not want him back for three rea sons. First, Rostow has been away too long and his courses are being taught differently. Second, Rostow's own interests have changed from economics to world politics. Lastly, there is a deep-running hostility to Rostow as a scholar. Indeed, when Rostow published his celebrated...
...Some people in various countries have thought that persistence was simply the result of Dr. Salazar's personal obstinacy," said the new Premier. "But the truth is that Portugal's position could not have been otherwise." To the cheers of the hawkish National Assembly, Caetano pledged to continue the seven-year anti-insurgency wars in Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique, which last year soaked up some 40% of the country's $817 million budget...