Word: hawkishly
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...skirmishing over Kenneth Adelman's nomination as arms-control chief; he was Adelman's main sponsor. And last month Clark encouraged Reagan to make his star wars missile-defense speech, despite the worries of other Reagan aides that it would reinforce the President's reputation for hawkish loose talk...
Teller's influence these days is indirect. A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he serves the Government only as a member of the Air Force scientific advisory board. But the highly hawkish views that have made him a suspect figure to many fellow scientists win him respect from the Reagan White House, where he is an honored guest. He was among the 13 scientists who dined at the mansion last week. More to the point, Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth, 31 years younger than Teller, has long admired the old lion...
...Virginia we have a saying, 'There stands Jackson like a stone wall.' " When it came to finding defense programs to prune, the congressional confrontation was more like the Wilderness Campaign, with lots of smoke and fire but no clear targets. Senator John Tower of Texas, the hawkish chairman of the Armed Services Committee, highlighted the problem when he read a letter he had written inviting each Senator to submit a list "of any defense-related project in his or her state where a reduction of expenditures could be made." The request was met with nervous laughter. Many members...
...longtime association with Eugene Rostow, who heads the agency, and his brief service as an administrative assistant to California's liberal Democratic Senator Alan Cranston that inspired Helms to threaten the Senate leadership with a ten-hour filibuster to block confirmation. In Helms' view, even the hawkish President was not selecting tried and true conservatives to the arms negotiating posts. In a sudden twist, the White House gave up the fight and is expected to withdraw Grey's name...
...span the spectrum of the bishops' thinking on nuclear arms. The most liberal member of the committee is Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, 52, of Detroit, who heads Pax Christi, a movement with strong pacifist inclinations. A total of 57 bishops belong to the organization. Gumbleton's hawkish opposite on the committee is Bishop John O'Connor, 62, who runs the church's military ministry for Cardinal Cooke. The committee is rounded out by two moderates: Bishop Daniel...