Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fresh from its botched keystone-kops hit on a Hamas leader in Jordan, the Mossad, Israel's vaunted spy agency, finds itself again looking inept. It turns out that a veteran agent of the organization has long been fabricating intelligence reports that have led the Mossad to take a hawkish view of Syria's military intentions and capabilities. The agent, who is under investigation, claimed he based his reports on the information of a key source, a non-Arab closely tied to the inner circle in Damascus. Israeli officials now say the agent, briefly a right-wing political activist...
Though he is tall, bald, possessed of a hawkish, handsome nose and a striking snow-white beard, Malick's most distinguishing feature may very well be the intensity of his gaze--appropriately enough for a filmmaker--which has an unsettling quality of being both wide-eyed and penetrating. As it happens, these are also qualities that associates and friends ascribe to the man himself. He is also said to be, in no particular order, difficult, honorable, secretive, deeply spiritual, sweet, vindictive, humble, mercurial, self-possessed, insecure and the best-read person on the planet. "He's a genius," says...
...North Korea--have only about 100 front-line warplanes among them. That total, the Navy projects, will climb to 120 by 2005. Lawmakers are irritated by Ralston's apparent sleight-of-threat. "There's been a lack of candor in the whole process," complains Representative Curt Weldon, the hawkish Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Committee on National Security's research-and-development panel. "We haven't been given a threat that warrants these programs," he told Time. "We can't justify them...
...Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have Israel's enemies quaking, but on the home front a 21-year-old nanny has him on the defensive. Tanya Shaw, fired by Netanyahu's wife Sara for burning a pot of soup, went public with stories of working from 6:30 a.m. to midnight, and enduring Sara's screaming fits. So far a stream of press leaks has backed Shaw's tales...
...that way. The new Prime Minister initially snubbed Dan Meridor, a Likud veteran who was the preferred choice of a dump-Netanyahu movement within the party last fall. Under pressure from key Likud members, Netanyahu named Meridor as Finance Minister. Netanyahu also tried to humble Ariel Sharon, the hawkish and outspoken former Defense Minister, offering him the housing ministry. Sharon, expecting something grander, declined. The party closed ranks behind Sharon, and Netanyahu offered him a new and powerful infrastructure ministry. By the end of last week, Sharon was still sulking and hadn't given an answer...