Word: hawkish
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...centerpiece for Bruce Herschensohn, 53, an acerbic and deeply conservative commentator for the ABC television station in Los Angeles. Herschensohn's foreign policy acumen is often praised, lately by former President Nixon, who starred at a fund raiser for him in Newport Beach. Herschensohn commands the allegiance of many hawkish Republicans, but G.O.P. pros fear that he is the sort of somewhat scary hard-liner whom the incumbent Cranston has trounced in three straight Senate elections...
...impossible to believe that Crocker, the rest of the State Department, the CIA and the more hawkish members of Congress have been so utterly deceived by Savimbi. However, there is a real reason for the ostensibly plausible yet strategically reckless rationalization for propping up the new interventionist cause celebre: defense of South African hegemony over mineralrich Namibia...
...GIVES us here is a masterpiece of irony--inhumanity with a human face. The same storm-troopers who destroy the Buttle home are later seen relaxing among themselves, complaining about how hot their uniforms are, and even practicing Christmas carols. Within the Ministry itself, barried, faceless clerks evade the hawkish eyes of their supervisors in order to watch Casablanca on their telescreens. Although these people are serving under a brutal system, they are nonetheless living creatures, unlike the automatons of Orwell's novel. There is even a resistance movement, evidencing itself in a variety of sudden explosions, which occur...
...this tough talk at so delicate a moment in Soviet-American relations? Perle, among the most hawkish members of the Administration, denied any effort "to throw cold water on the summit." But some Administration officials clearly thought otherwise. Secretary of State George Shultz went so far as to complain inside the official family about Weinberger's rhetorical offensive. The Defense Secretary showed no sign of backing off. He even postponed an upcoming trip to Asia, an aide explained, so he could "position himself to remain active in the walk-up to Geneva...
...President did come under fire from some hawkish supporters who thought he should have issued an ultimatum and backed it up by military action. But those criticisms were balanced by grudging commendations from some of Reagan's most severe critics. For example, New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who rarely finds anything good to say about the Administration, wrote that "Mr. Reagan deserves praise" for his restraint. In a more partisan vein, the College Republican National Committee began selling, for $1 each, red and white buttons with the simple message "427 DAYS." That is the difference between the 444 days...