Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside Israel, there was speculation on what the change in leadership might mean in terms of Middle East peace negotiations. Although Peres has a reputation for being rather hawkish, some Arab observers concluded that the Defense Minister was potentially a stronger leader than Rabin-a plus from their viewpoint. But they also wondered whether Peres-if indeed he manages to form a government-will have a mandate to accept the kind of territorial concessions that may be necessary for peace...
...President indicated before the primary that the White House might be preparing for yet another reversal, this time concerning the long range naval shipbuilding program. Newspaper reports indicated the decision could well be determined by the results of the Texas primary, where Ronald Reagan had been winning over hawkish Texas conservatives with his talk of Soviet military superiority. Although administration officials had earlier indicated that the decision would have to await preparation of the next budget, the President announced expansion of the program on May 4--three days after losing in Texas...
...Mass.: "If a teen-ager is publicly humiliated, does this build his character? Does it build the character of other students who are encouraged to take part in such a show?" The school's first teacher, Ray Fisher, who quit because Gauld permitted no disagreement with his own hawkish views on Viet Nam, charges that Gauld "is completely obsessed. You find that the kids are in effect brainwashed." Doris Vladimiroff, director of HEW'S Upward Bound program in Maine, whose son went to a Hyde summer session, complains: "Gauld's techniques are nothing less than demoniacal...
...fearful-and the Arabs hopeful-of heavy postelection pressure on Jerusalem to withdraw from occupied territories. Beset by unrest on the West Bank, a faltering economy and a bitterly divided leadership, Israel could find such pressure intolerable. The Rabin government could fall and be replaced by a more hawkish administration that may embark Israel on aggressive and unpredictable action...
Israel's hawkish Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, 53, is responsible both for his country's security and for administering the occupied territories-with their population of more than 1 million Arabs-captured from Egypt, Jordan and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. The most troublesome of these areas has been the West Bank of the Jordan River, the home of 650,000 Palestinians and the scene of numerous riots during the past four months. The West Bank was calm last week, and Peres told TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff and Correspondent David Halevy that...