Word: hawkishly
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Still, I chose to stay around for a while and lend support. I heard a couple of speeches and a smattering of applause, but no real commitment from the crowd. Even the hawkish pro-intervention demonstrators in the background seemed to lack real conviction...
...week's end, though, the prevailing sounds were decidedly hawkish. Whatever the conciliatory talk elsewhere, Washington was having none of it, at least in public. George Bush blasted suggestions that a trade could be made to induce Saddam Hussein to withdraw. "I am more determined than ever to see that this invading dictator gets out of Kuwait with no compromise of any kind whatsoever," he said. To ensure that Saddam perceives the military alliance ranged against him as "credible," and to achieve an offensive capability beyond the "defend and deter" mission described as Washington's objective to date, Defense Secretary...
...Hawkish Soviet generals have begun to grumble that the massing of U.S. troops only 600 miles from the Soviet Union's restive southern border could be intended as a permanent foothold threatening to the U.S.S.R. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Belonogov told parliamentary deputies that the Soviet Union had been "notified" about the U.S. decision to field an expeditionary force but "did not approve." Said he: "We cannot be overjoyed at the stepping up of American military power in the region -- in the short term, because the situation is becoming more and more explosive; in the long term, because there...
...Middle East makes this an inauspicious time for the U.S. to be pressuring its closest ally in the area. Besides, the Iraqi dictator's well-publicized embraces last week of Palestine ) Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat and the Precarious Little King of Jordan make it all the easier for hawkish Israelis to say: You expect us to deal with these people...
...exchange of phone numbers is often the beginning of a romance. The exchange between the U.S. and Israel last week looked more like the prelude to a divorce. In House testimony Secretary of State James Baker complained that if Israel's hawkish new government maintained the line of its first hours in office, Washington would have to give up trying to arrange Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. He added, "Everybody over there should know that the telephone number ((of the White House)) is 1-202-456-1414. When you're serious about peace, call...