Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American choppers sink one gunboat and disable two others after Iranians open fire. -- Robert Bork vows to take his futile Supreme Court confirmation fight to a vote on the Senate floor. -- A young Al Gore, the South' s articulate contender, stakes out a hawkish role in the Democratic nomination race. -- Clare Boothe Luce, a woman who triumphed in a man' s world, dies...
...something of a mixed blessing that the Soviets are equally confused. The General Secretary struggles to keep his hawkish military in check, but both leaders are unpleasantly surprised to learn of cracks in the system. Initially the Pentagon can't find all its 25,000-odd nuclear warheads, and dismisses this problem as "inventory shrinkage." A ballistic-missile submarine in the Indian Ocean can't be located. The Soviet leader's helplessness mounts as the KGB and Soviet military battle for turf...
...Bush is far less conciliatory about the Soviets than when he served in the early 1970s as United Nations Ambassador and envoy to China; a subsequent stint as director of the CIA acutely altered his views of the Kremlin's objectives around the world. Bush the moderate became more hawkish. Now he speaks out sharply in behalf of the Nicaraguan contras and is not reluctant to employ weapons and money elsewhere to expand democracy. Meanwhile he pushes, even in the worst of times, for continued dialogue with Moscow. In doing so, he plays an important role in keeping the President...
...intervention in Central America. McCain has curbed his formidable temper but not his irreverent humor: he got off one of the best quips of the campaign at Goldwater's expense. McCain recalled Goldwater's saying that if he had been elected President in 1964 and had put his hawkish policies into effect, McCain would never have wound up in a Vietnamese prison camp. Right, said McCain, "it would have been a Chinese prison camp...
Moreover, Likud is not the most hawkish party in Israel, nor is Shamir the most extreme member of Likud. For reasons of party politics, Shamir may opt for a noisy show of ideological fervor on West Bank settlements. Indeed, already he has called for "Zionist economics" (mirroring the equally vague "Islamic economics...