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...central goal of the movement is to educate the public to the true horrors of what war would mean to the U.S. and the world today, and thereby put pressure on a hawkish Administration to negotiate a cutback in nuclear arms with the Soviet Union. Some of that prodding is already coming from Congress. Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Mark Hatfield of Oregon two weeks ago introduced a resolution that calls for a freeze on the testing, production and further deployment of nuclear weapons by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The nonbinding measure has already attracted...
Some of Reagan's aides wanted him to focus his speech solely on the economic development plan, talking of plowshares rather than swords. Their aim was to tone down his hawkish image, especially concerning Cuba and Nicaragua, and to keep him personally insulated from the trying situation in El Salvador. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, however, argued that the President must include firm warnings about Communist expansion. He insisted that it would be misleading to be silent about the pressing security problems of the troubled area...
Central America. Haig, for once, is the more hawkish: he has not ruled out the use of American troops in El Salvador, and indeed has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for U.S. military action as a last resort. Weinberger has refused on practical rather than idealistic grounds. He contends that the American public would not stand for any commitment of troops...
...hawks waiting in the wings. I believe the contrary. The current leadership is dominated by parochial old Stalinists. What can be worse than that? The next generation will certainly be less parochial, and it will be post-Stalinist. The people who now run the Soviet Union are really very hawkish, and the alternative to them is not a still more hawkish group, but rather a group that is more reform-minded. These are dedicated, intelligent Russian nationalists who believe that a policy of hostility to the U.S. and confrontation abroad may have become counterproductive: they worry whether the Soviet economy...
Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon argues forcefully for an Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Says he: "If we stick to our goals, this might be the last war we shall fight in the area." So far, Prime Minister Menachem Begin has overruled his hawkish general, but Israel has built up its forces along its northern border and given warning that any new provocation by Palestinian guerrillas would invite a major military response. No one knows just how far Israel would go if it decides to invade. In talks between Israeli military officials and leaders of Lebanon's right-wing...