Word: hawkish
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...usually hawkish Senate Armed Services Committee refused to appropriate funds for "fast deployment ships" which could bring thousands of GI's to an embattled nation with incredible--and disturbing--speed...
...Israel, the skirmishing at Suez notwithstanding, until the Arabs were rearmed and united-a condition that is not imminent. Nasser realizes, however, that he cannot coo too loudly without running the danger of being brushed aside as leader of the Arab left by someone like Boumediene. Even the most hawkish leader at the Cairo conference must have known deep down a horrifying thing: that if full-scale fighting broke out again, the Israeli army could undoubtedly occupy Cairo, Amman and Damascus within 48 hours. There would be practically nothing the weakened Arabs could do about...
Walzer hopes that if the CNC can collect several thousand signatures, Congressman O'Neill might agree to public hearings in spite of his hawkish stand on the war. Several of Walzer's group recently conferred with O'Neill and reported him to be much more dovish in private than he has been in public...
...objectives thus far are quite unclear. In fact, the group itself will have no "party line"; each participant is free to respond as he wishes to queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping to direct Vietnam Summer are said to believe that its main function is to plant the seeds for broad-based radical politics--something never before accomplished on a long-range basis in the United States...
...Israel rally provoked more than a few ironic smiles in Administration circles. Hawkish on Israel, many Jewish leaders have been among the most dovish in the U.S. on Viet Nam. SANE, which had been planning an anti-Viet Nam war rally last week, was forced to cancel the meeting, partly because so many members were out demonstrating for Israel...