Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of the Third District vote counted, the Rev. Robert F. Drinan S.J., a Jesuit priest running as an antiwar Democrat, held a 5000-vote lead over his Republican opponent, John McGlennon, who has campaigned on a law and order platform. Drinan's opponent in the Democratic primary, hawkish incumbent Philip J. Philbin, trailed badly in his write-in campaign...
While Drinan attempted to broaden his image as a peace candidate by addressing himself to a whole range of national problems, both the hawkish Philbin and the rather more evasive McGlennon accused Drinan of hypocrisy and extremism...
Murphy stresses "what is good about America," criticizes Tunney's opposition to a bill allowing FBI agents to investigate campus bombings, links his foe to radical-liberal causes and individuals. Still hawkish, Murphy assures his audiences: "The war is going great." Murphy's age is a handicap, as is his admission that he was on Technicolor Inc.'s payroll while serving in the Senate. Head to head, Tunney probably would win. Republicans hope Reagan's ample coattails will drag his old showbiz pal along...
...Israelis were deeply apprehensive that the U.S.'s search for peace in the Middle East would endanger their hard-won security. In Jerusalem last week, crowds gathered in the streets for a rally protesting U.S. inaction. "State Department errors cost Israeli blood!" cried Menahem Begin, who led his hawkish Gahal Party out of the coalition government of Premier Golda Meir over Israel's decision to begin negotiations. Senior Israeli Cabinet ministers reminded American visitors that Israel had accepted the cease-fire only after the U.S. gave its guarantee that no military buildup would be tolerated in the standstill...
...Harte, who stoutly resisted partly out of respect for his fellow Texan, Lyndon Johnson. "But finally my son got through to me. I realized that I didn't understand this war or believe that it was serving the nation's vital interests." So Harte did a hard thing in hawkish Texas: he openly opposed U.S. policies in Viet Nam, and even supported Eugene McCarthy in 1968. "I'm fairly certain that we were the first and only paper in the state to editorialize against the war," he says proudly...