Word: hawkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Presidential aide McGeorge Bundy began to shed some of his hawkish plumage on Saturday--advocating an unconditional halt to the bombing of North Vietnam by next year at the latest and a unilateral withdrawal of at least 100,000 American troops from South Vietnam...
Morse came out of last May's Democratic primary in bad shape. He defeated his hawkish opponent, former Congressman Robert B. Duncan, but only by a razor-thin margin. His vote, less than 50 per cent of the total, was the poorest showing of his political career: even in his most difficult early days, as a Republican Senator who was too liberal for the old guard in his party, Morse never encountered so much opposition...
...recently united Kennedy-McCarthy forces face an uphill battle in overthrowing the rule of party "czar" John Bailey in what was--until McCarthy and the war--a very strong and single-minded party which brooked little in-fighting. With a Nixon landslide in 1968 and scandle-ridden hawkish Senator Dodd up for re-election in 1970, the liberals with Senator Ribicoff's leadership may be able to pull off a coup before the 1972 elections...
Neither sets the hustings afire. Bellmon runs as a folksy, somewhat hawkish conservative. Monroney cogently defends Administration policies on the war, farm problems, gun control and the cities, but in a colorless style that tends to tune out his audiences. While both men are uncommonly shy for politicians, Bellmon drives himself through a saturation-handshaking pace. His key tack is the charge that Monroney has lost touch with the red-dirt prairies and hills of home...
Political squabbles, economic pressures and social problems add to the government's burden. The Assembly, a hawkish group of men mostly from a middle class that stands to lose more from peace than the war-weary peasantry, distrusts Huong. Assembly members consider him soft on the issue of negotiations with the Communists. A Lower House deputy, Tran Quy Phong, recently threatened that "if Huong's government seeks a compromise with the Communists, it will be overthrown by the people." Inflationary pressure has mounted. Since Tet, the government has issued a billion piasters ($8,500,000) in new currency...