Word: dovishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Witness Michael Dukakis's tank-driving stunt in his campaign for president in 1988. Dukakis responded to charges of being a dovish peacenik by donning full military garb and hoisting his pathetic little body into the driver's seat of a tank. All we could see was his large goofy head, complete with green helmet, sticking out the top as the tank rolled down the street. It was a photo op turned mockery...
...more dovish minister, David Levy, said he would skip the conference and criticized Shamir for naming his own people to head negotiating teams. Among the men Shamir reportedly was taking to Madrid was deputy foreign minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a political rival of Levy...
Brock Adams, Washington. The state's senior Senator has a bigger problem than a dovish stance: his alleged sexual encounter with the 24-year-old daughter of lifelong friends while his wife was out of town...
...Predicts Maryland state chairman and fund raiser Nathan Landow: "As things stand now, Gore has the best shot. The vote on the war was important." The irony is that his pro-war vote, a prerequisite for having a chance in the general election, could deny Gore his dovish party's bid. It is not lost on his colleagues that every time Gore defends their vote against force, he gets to rub in the fact that he chose right on the biggest foreign-policy issue of the past decade. When asked last week, Gore went...
Adds Haggard, "The reason why I'm not as dovish is because subsequent actions taken by Saddam Hussein meant sanctions might not have worked...