Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unit on the island was "not acceptable," then it was tacitly accepted. At times, the allies contend, it has been totally unclear who really has been in charge of formulating the Administration's approach to the Soviets: the generally cautious Secretary of State Cyrus Vance or the more hawkish National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. This has prompted the West Germans to label the U.S. policy as one characterized by Wirrwarr or confusion. Concludes a top-ranking chancellery official in Bonn: "Carter's motives have been beyond question, as has been his integrity. It's been his lack of aptitude that...
...fate of the 19- and 20-year old men really lies in the aging and conservative Rep. Jamie R. Whitten (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. It's Congress in action, as Whitten calls up the requested transfer for a vote and then--panicking that his hawkish majority may have crumbled beneath him--shelves his idea for another day. An administration official is standing outside the door of room 140 in the U.S. Capitol, biting his nails until they bleed...
DIED. Yigal Allon, 61, commander of Israel's combat forces in the 1948 war of independence, member of the Knesset since 1954, and a hawkish voice in several Labor Party Cabinets; of a heart attack; in Asulla, Israel. Allon took tough stands on defense matters but sought a moderate, long-range solution to the Middle East conflict. Thus, the "Allon Plan" of 1967 called for Israeli withdrawal from the populated areas of the occupied West Bank and other compromises. He also hailed Egypt's 1977 peace overture to Jerusalem as "a historic chance," though he later became...
...debate still goes on in the U.S. over why the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan last December. Hawkish observers-including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski-have argued that the move could turn out to be Moscow's first big step toward the oil and warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Historian George Kennan and other defenders of détente say no, the Kremlin was acting defensively to shore up its southern border. Not surprisingly, the latter interpretation is endorsed in the Soviet Union. Also not surprisingly, an insistence on the defensive, legitimate and temporary nature of the Afghan operation...
Politically, the state tends to the conservative and hawkish, but the proportionally huge number of Independents (160,000 registered as of last September, compared with 177,000 Republicans and 146,000 Democrats) reflects its notorious unpredictability when primary time rolls around. New Hampshire rarely makes the New York or Washington papers between presidential election years--except for protests against the nuclear power plant under construction in Seabrook or for the "Volvo International" tennis tournament in Bretton Woods--but it is never far from the hearts and minds of ambitious politicians or those who chronicle them. (Ever seen a column called...