Word: hawkish
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...public opinion poll. His ambitious reform program had made little headway. Promised antitrust legislation ended up pigeonholed in the Diet. Inflation was slowed to a manageable 9%, but the government failed to stop price rises on necessities like rice, oil and electric power. The party's hawkish right wing blocked Miki's attempts to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Miki seemed weak and ineffective; there were whispers that prior to the next elections he might be replaced as party boss by a stronger man-possibly even Tanaka...
...attacked from the right, he is also getting hell from the left, either because liberals have abandoned their traditional support of detente or because they oppose his interventionist views in Angola and elsewhere. He is thus in the unusual position of being accused of being too dovish and too hawkish...
...critics charge that his ardent Zionism is giving the magazine a new kind of predictability, not only in its treatment of the Middle East, but the rest of the world. Disgruntled former members of the staff say his yardstick for all matters is how they affect Israel, that his hawkish position on Israel has had a ripple effect on other issues. One of them cynically suggests that the magazine be renamed "The Middle East..And the Rest of The World...
Udall split with Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam as early as 1967, but foreign policy is not his strong point. Favoring detente in principle, Udall argues, along with Scoop Jackson, that the policy must be a "two-way street." He is hawkish on the side of Israel, which he visited last week. He urged Israel to sign the interim agreement with Egypt "even if signing it is as risky as rejecting it." He has strongly opposed the proposed sale of antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. In place of what he calls "complex, exotic, often unreliable new hardware," he would prefer...
...think the Israeli mood is more hawkish than ever before," says Olmert. "The Israeli people are peaceloving, but they feel they are left without a choice...