Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...margin is getting narrower and narrower." The next challenge will probably come this fall, after the Knesset's summer recess. If Begin cannot return to work, the most likely candidate to replace him would be his current Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a longtime ally. But the hawkish Shamir, who favors expansion of the controversial Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, might not be able to commmand enough support to form a government...
...consideration as Reagan's running mate are Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, New York Congressman Jack Kemp, former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon and Donald Rumsfeld, president of G.D. Searle & Co., who was Ford's chief of staff and then Secretary of Defense. Reagan advisers have even discussed hawkish Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Henry Jackson, but they are more likely to be considered for Defense Secretary. The consensus is that Reagan will choose a middle-of-the-road Republican...
Hollings' charge was not entirely unfounded - it is, after all, campaign time -but the dispute was more complicated than that. The latest round in the budget battle began when hawkish Senators led by Hollings talked the House members of the Senate-House conference committee into approving $153.7 billion in defense spending for fiscal 1981, which begins Oct. 1 , or $5.8 billion more than the House had voted. To balance the increase, the conferees slashed $4.3 billion out of education and job-training programs, food stamps, aid to mass transit, assistance to help the poor pay fuel bills, and federal...
Carter's objection got a quick response from House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, who had reluctantly endorsed the committee compromise and then joined in opposing it. "I kind of vacillated a bit myself," he said. New York's hawkish Democrat Samuel Stratton, on the other hand, summoned the Joint Chiefs of Staff to testify before his House Armed Services Subcommittee on Investigations on Thursday morning, just before the scheduled floor vote. The chiefs usually support a President's budget recommendations publicly, whatever their private reservations. But this time they agreed -not very reluctantly-that...
Nothing demonstrated that so much as the futility of Begin's attempts to replace Weizman in the Israeli Cabinet's second most important and sensitive post. He first asked Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir to move over to Defense. The hawkish Shamir, 64, a Polish emigrant like Begin, was Speaker of the Knesset before replacing Moshe Dayan as Foreign Minister two months ago. To replace Shamir, Begin tapped Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, 55, a leader of the Liberal Party, which together with Herut forms the backbone of the Likud governing coalition. Both men abstained on the Knesset...