Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broad range of issues-arms control, trade with the Communist world, dealings with NATO allies, to name a few-Weinberger is far more hawkish than Shultz. But on the use of U.S. armed forces, the Pentagon boss reflects the views of military commanders who still shudder at the memory of Viet Nam. While the Pentagon clearly would like to see the Sandinista regime topple in Nicaragua, Weinberger has ruled out direct U.S. military involvement. Said he: "The President will not allow our military forces to creep-or be drawn gradually-into a combat role in Central America." Shultz, while...
...hawkish report presented a dilemma for the Administration, which has adopted a more conciliatory rhetorical approach toward the Soviets during the election campaign. Reagan sat on the report for ten months, claiming he had not had time to "study" it. Last week he sent it on to Congress without a formal endorsement...
Then he continued, "And we should try to quarantine Nicaragua if it uses force outside of its borders." A military quarantine is generally considered an act of war, and it is a far more drastic step than any so far advocated by Reagan, making Mondale sound more hawkish than his opponent. Mondale twice amended the answer in later remarks, saying he had meant that a quarantine would be a legitimate response to the establishment of a Soviet or Cuban military base in Nicaragua, and then only as an "option" to be used in consultation with U.S. allies in the region...
...Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, a candidate for the Knesset on the Likud ticket. As the most charismatic of his party's politicians, Sharon still draws cries of "Arik! Arik!" when he campaigns. He remains immensely popular with the more hawkish elements of his party, many of whom feel that he did not have a completely free hand during the invasion and thus should not be blamed if it did not succeed...
...John Tower of Texas, the ultra-hawkish chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had become a broker. "Tower got Reagan to come down, and he got Domenici to come up," says one participant in the discussions. "He made the deal possible." The bargain between President and Senators was cut last Wednesday afternoon in the White House Cabinet Room. Reagan made what he said was his final offer: a 7.5% Pentagon increase next year. "We're all supposed to be leaders," he told his G.O.P. comrades, among them Majority Leader Howard Baker. "This is a time for leaders...