Word: hawkishly
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...eastern agreements, inevitably diminished any hope that Waldheim might have had for a softening of attitudes in the Middle East. By the time he reached Jerusalem, he found that Israel's position was also hardening. This week Israel's ruling Labor Party is expected to adopt a hawkish program, originated by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, for economic penetration and development of occupied territories on the West Bank of the Jordan and in the Sinai desert-which even some Israelis protest is "creeping annexation...
...still the most popular man in Israel, although his hawkish views and proclivity for shooting from the hip in public statements make it a long shot that he will ever become Prime Minister. Politics aside, his present position gives him virtual rule over the territories captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Married for the second time last month to Rahel Korem, 47, Dayan keeps up a furious schedule visiting the occupied territories-a fact that gives him considerable visibility and influence in the government...
...Administration are being delayed while the White House staff is being rebuilt. Symptomatically, Wall Street had its worst slump in months, and the dollar took a bad beating on international money markets. Congress was continuing to assert its new-found truculence. In the Senate last week, the once hawkish Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to forbid any U.S. spending for any combat activity in either Cambodia or Laos...
...never before approved a measure aimed at ending or reducing U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, voted 219-188 to block a requested transfer in the Supplemental Appropriations Bill of already allotted funds from other Defense Department programs to pay for the bombing. Last week the normally conservative and hawkish Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved an amendment to the same bill that goes even further by prohibiting the use of any appropriations whatsoever for the bombing...
...Neill was the first House Democratic leader to break with President Johnson and oppose the Vietnam War. It was his most excruciating decision. Even though the academics in Cambridge favored such a break, O'Neill's strength has always come from the workingmen, who in 1967 were still hawkish. His son, Thomas, reflects that "Dad had to sell the non-academics on his switch. He really saw himself as educating them to the realities of the war. He seriously doubted whether he would be re-elected...