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Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History. A specialist in pre-revolutionary Russia, Pipes now is the National Security Council's chief Soviet expert. Hawkish on defense issues, Pipes is a bitter enemy of the Soviets, whom he considers dangerous expansionists and implacable foes of the United States. Pipes got himself into hot water last March when he told an interviewer that detente was dead and that a war between the superpowers was inevitable if the Soviet Union didn't peacefully change its system. The White House and State Department quickly slapped his wrists, and there hasn't been...
...Palestinians autonomy. But most U.S. and Arab officials doubt that Begin would risk toppling his government by trying to work out such an agreement. Surveying Begin's government, a senior official in the U.S. State Department noted the lack of moderates and said: "This is the most hawkish Israeli Cabinet in recent memory...
...reform movement, a loose coalition of military officers, civilian defense consultants, and some Senators and Congressmen who span the political spectrum from right-wing Republican to liberal Democrat. The reformers do not question the need for more spending. Says Edward N. Luttwak, of Georgetown University, one of the most hawkish members of the movement: "We have underfunded defense so much so long that it would be almost impossible now to spend more and not do some good...
...success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan) as technologically dubious and ridiculously expensive. Two months ago the powerful, conservative Mormon church joined the naysayers, beseeching the White House not to station the MX in Utah and Nevada. Then a brace of hawkish Republicans, Senators Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn of Utah, marched into the Pentagon with their own panicky manifesto denouncing the Air Force's plan to put MX in their states. Next Congress's Office of Technology Assessment chimed in with a careful report that found serious...
...hawkish tone that echoed many of his campaign speeches, Reagan also said that a buildup of the nation's weapons arsenal took precedence over the resumption of arms-control negotiations with the Soviet Union. While he did not rule out such talks completely, Reagan stressed that "we have a better chance of finding [peace] if we maintain our strength while we're searching...