Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate revealed that at least eight hawkish members of Congress had been advised confidentially of the bombing. "How foolish we would be to impeach this President for that particular incident when the whole South Vietnamese involvement was one series of mistakes, one right after the other," declared Republican Railsback...
Tough Talks. Nixon and Kissinger went to the summit prepared to accept any agreement that they felt was reasonable. They were ready to defend such a deal against the worries of Washington's hawkish Senator Henry Jackson and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. But, says one top American official, "the outer limits of what we could take were unobtainable. We did not get the degree of Soviet cooperation we needed to fight our battles at home...
...talks with Kissinger have been indispensable to reporters in an otherwise hostile Administration. Yet sometimes a Kissinger briefing edges closer to what is known in White House parlance as "stroking." During the Viet Nam War, for example, Kissinger would tell Hawkish Columnist Joseph Alsop that the North Vietnamese understood only force, and Eastern Liberal James Reston that he was straining to keep the Pentagon hawks at bay. Aboard his Air Force 707 on an early round of his Middle East peace shuttle, Kissinger would shuffle to the press cabin in the rear to tell the 14 reporters in his entourage...
...major three colonies, the course of the coup was followed as eagerly as it was in Lisbon. In Lourenço Marques, capital of Mozambique, crowds gathered outside newspaper offices to buy up papers as they came off the presses. There was some concern in Lisbon that the hawkish commanders of either Angola or Mozambique might join with white settlers in defiance of the new dovish regime. But when they were fired, both men submitted quietly...
...African territories of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau. Now an influential Portuguese leader has openly questioned the government's sacrosanct policy that the overseas provinces must be preserved at all cost. Ironically, this dovish challenge comes from General Antonio de Spinola, a hero of the African wars. Meanwhile, hawkish devotion to the status quo prevails in the civilian-dominated National Assembly...