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Tucker, 51, is emerging as something of a superhawk on Middle Eastern affairs. Last January, in another much-debated Commentary article, he laid out a blueprint for a U.S. military takeover of Persian Gulf oil wells in the event of another Arab oil embargo. In an interview with TIME last week, he argued that the nuclear situation in the Middle East "is going to evolve anyway. The real question then is: What is the best way to have it evolve? My concept of an Israeli nuclear deterrent may create the context in which the Israelis will feel secure enough...
...events strengthened both Sadat and Rabin at home. The Israeli premier solidified his support even more by asking General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, Israel's hero of the October war, to be his personal adviser. The move guaranteed increased support for Rabin from right-wing Israelis who adore the superhawk Sharon and who have long worried that the Premier is a waffling dove. The general's charisma will also blunt the appeal of Rabin critics like former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Since Sharon becomes a civil servant who by law cannot openly criticize the government, Rabin has also neatly...
...deplored the loss of a literate conservative-if sometimes outrageous-columnist, Joe was testy: "I'm an old New Dealer," he said. "I've been for progressive legislation all my life." Then he added: "But I've been hard-headed on foreign affairs," alluding to his superhawk loyalist stand on Viet Nam and President Nixon. None of the fire-or ire-has left Joe's writing since the death earlier this year of his younger brother and former partner Stewart. Still, Alsop admits that he is tired. "The reporter's trade is for young...
Later Ellsberg told of his own con version. He had come to Viet Nam a "superhawk," but changed when con fronted with the cavalier shooting of villagers from U.S. helicopters ("like herding cattle with a pickup truck in Montana"), the corruption of South Vietnamese officials, the squandering of U.S. tax money, the wanton burning of villages, and the deliberate obfuscation of the facts by U.S. Government and military officials. At one point, Ellsberg told how South Vietnamese officials sold U.S. supplied cement on the black market, and made AID-financed schools out of little more than sand and water...
...Times had obviously turned up a big story (see PRESS). Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon analyst and superhawk-turned-superdove, apparently had felt so concerned about his involvement in the Viet Nam tragedy that he had somehow conveyed about 40 volumes of an extraordinary Pentagon history of the war to the newspaper. Included were 4,000 pages of documents, 3,000 pages of analysis and 2.5 million words?all classified as secret, top secret or top secret-sensitive...