Word: hawkishness
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Hollings' charge was not entirely unfounded - it is, after all, campaign time -but the dispute was more complicated than that. The latest round in the budget battle began when hawkish Senators led by Hollings talked the House members of the Senate-House conference committee into approving $153.7 billion in defense spending for fiscal 1981, which begins Oct. 1 , or $5.8 billion more than the House had voted. To balance the increase, the conferees slashed $4.3 billion out of education and job-training programs, food stamps, aid to mass transit, assistance to help the poor pay fuel bills, and federal...
...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...