Word: tougher
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...bringing with them some of the fire and resentment Americans feel over the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan and over Iran's abuse of the 50 U.S. hostages. Indeed, last week's New York Times-CBS News poll revealed that 67% of the respondents thought the U.S. should "get tougher in its dealings with the Russians"; only 53% felt this way in June 1978. Even more significant, a solid plurality believed, for the first time in two decades, that the U.S. is not spending enough money on defense needs...
McElroy agreed that the fight to pass the bill would be tough, but added, "it would have been tougher six months ago. I think people will be surprised at the widespread national support for registration...
...anyone in the Administration could have smiled during last week's crisis, it was National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who has long been trying to get Carter to take a tougher stance toward the Soviets, and who has long been paying particular attention to Afghanistan. Since July, he has regarded the leftist Afghanistan regime as vulnerable to the Muslim insurgents, and he has even enjoyed hinting, without saying so, that the U.S. might covertly aid those insurgents. To reporters and other visitors, he would recite statistics from secret cables that littered his desk. He could tick off the casualties...
George Bush said he felt "an increasing frustration and sense of urgency" about the U.S. position in the world. But he also vowed not to join other candidates in trying to "out-macho each other" by urging ever tougher action by the U.S. Said he: "I'm not going to play that game of 'I'll mine one harbor,' then the other guy says, 'I'll mine one harbor and bomb one airfield...
...seems to rule out a so-called grand coalition alliance between Demirel's right-of-center Justice Party and Ecevit's left-of-center Republican People's Party. Yet there was one sign of a benefit from the memorandum. As the Assembly last week began discussing tougher antiterrorism legislation, Ecevit announced that his party would support the package with only minor changes. If that sort of cooperation should also fail, Turkey's military could well feel compelled to install its own system of government...