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Politically, the state tends to the conservative and hawkish, but the proportionally huge number of Independents (160,000 registered as of last September, compared with 177,000 Republicans and 146,000 Democrats) reflects its notorious unpredictability when primary time rolls around. New Hampshire rarely makes the New York or Washington papers between presidential election years--except for protests against the nuclear power plant under construction in Seabrook or for the "Volvo International" tennis tournament in Bretton Woods--but it is never far from the hearts and minds of ambitious politicians or those who chronicle them. (Ever seen a column called...
...country is in a decidedly hawkish mood. Seventy-eight percent favor more defense spending. A majority (74%) support building U.S. military bases in the Middle East, sending large-scale military aid to Pakistan (62%), and supplying military aid to the rebels in Afghanistan (57%). By a 3-to-l ratio, voters agree with the statement that the U.S. "may have to come close to risking war in order to make peace...
...likely to be the source of any instability in the near future. The importance of the Gulf region to the West has long been implicit in American policy; the Soviets did not need presidential envoy Clark Clifford in New Delhi or Carter in Washington to say so. The new, "hawkish" leaders in the Kremlin (if indeed they have taken over from the doddering Brezhnev) must realize that further military moves in the area would court a global conflict. Even Henry Kissinger recognizes that the Soviets, no matter how devious they are, will hesitate before taking any new military action...
...side, in between her repeated campaign forays to Iowa and New England, she continued to perform her extraordinary role as the President's most trusted adviser. Around the White House she is known as a "Brzezinski-liner" because she has long shared the security adviser's hawkish views, both on the Soviets and on the plight of the American captives in Tehran. She has warned that Soviet assurances of future cooperation should be mistrusted. She has also argued that persuasion has no effect on the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and as far back as when the hostages were first seized...
...Wednesday morning Carter had slightly blurred the speech, disappointing the hawkish faction among his White House advisers, who feared that the Soviets would view it as mostly rhetoric. One of the President's aides took consolation in describing the speech as "forcefully ambiguous." Vance was also unhappy with the rhetoric, but for a different reason. According to a close associate, he was concerned that the language was too flamboyant, giving the impression that Carter was overreacting and raising the danger that he would not be able to deliver on his threat of repelling a Soviet assault in the Persian Gulf...