Word: hawkishness
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...organized a class-time walkout protest, held rallies on the steps of Memorial Church, and even led a “peace march” concluding at Conant’s doorstep. A 1939 Crimson editorial referred to youth leaders and academic presidents like Conant as people on a hawkish path that is “a super-highway straight to Armageddon,” as quoted in Bethell’s book. And a 1939 poll reported in The Crimson reported that 95 percent of undergraduates opposed immediate US entrance into the War. Although some would dispute the poll?...
...chairman, Ben Bernanke, has ended the series of rate increases introduced by his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, and Wall Street has been anticipating the start of a period of cuts as the U.S. economy loses momentum. This transatlantic divergence is pushing the dollar down. (Note, however, that Bernanke sounded a hawkish note in a speech last week, saying that inflation remained "uncomfortably high" - an indication that he won't be reducing rates soon.) The big question is whether the dollar will continue its decline over the next several months, or whether the recent fall is a temporary blip. A sustained, larger...
...divisive race for Democrats just as they are trying to get their footing. It's particularly complicated for Pelosi, who is in the midst of another contest that could irritate moderate Democrats, as she is planning to replace the current head of the House Intelligence Committee Jane Harman, a hawkish California congresswoman (Pelosi says the post has a term limit, but Harman insists the previous Democratic Leader, Richard Gephardt, had promised her she would get to continue as the top Democrat on the committee...
...DIED. Bulent Ecevit, 81, former Prime Minister of Turkey; in Ankara. First appointed Premier in 1974, Ecevit held the position four more times over the next 30 years. A left-leaning nationalist, Ecevit's reforms at home were overshadowed by his hawkish foreign policy. Despite international opposition, Ecevit ordered Turkish troops into Cyprus in 1974 following a Greek-backed coup. His intervention split the island in two, and led to decades of deadlock with Greece...
...DIED. Pieter Willem "P.W." Botha, 90, hawkish South African politician who led the country during the height of the antiapartheid struggle in the 1980s; at his home in Wilderness, South Africa. As Prime Minister and then President, Botha made reforms at the edges of the apartheid system but refused to release political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela or countenance majority black rule. In 1986, with violence spiraling, he declared a state of emergency. Three years later he was forced to step down by his own party. In a recent interview, Botha said he had no regrets about...