Word: hawkes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Dayan's ultimate sin, however, is that he has increasingly irritated Golda Meir. She dislikes his hawk-dove vacillation. She frets at the time consumed in Cabinet sessions discussing Dayan. Disagreements between the two have become a clash of personalities. When Dayan began a lengthy explanation of his Suez disengagement plan to the Cabinet recently, Mrs. Meir acidly interrupted to ask whether an old woman who knew nothing about defense could insert a question. Dayan fell silent...
...through Colombia. Last week, however, the commission recommended a 36-mile sea-level canal across Panama, only ten miles west of the present one. It will be able to accommodate all 150,000-ton ships as well as the U.S. Navy's 60,000-ton Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, which are too wide for the present canal. The new canal will also have the potential to han dle 56,000 ships a year-twice today's maximum volume...
...Hard Time. Next stop: the National Press Club, where he told reporters that he was a draftee with no "natural penchant for the martial career." The suddenly moderate Ky ridiculed his image as a hawk ("Although I do fly, I have not very often thought of myself as a bird") and played up his role as head of the South Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks...
...last week, however, the consummate hawk was acting like a careful dove. In his speeches, Dayan was saying openly what other Israeli officials would only whisper privately: that Is rael should return to the Jarring talks in spite of the missiles. Dayan even suggested an Israeli pullback at Suez so that the canal could be opened again as a guarantee of peace...
...Yaffe along with Jerome Grossman and other members of Mass PAX (Massachusetts Political Action for Peace) decided that some form of protest was necessary to oppose the Nixon-Johnson policies in Vietnam. In May, PAX met with Dave Hawk, Sam Brown and Dave Mixner and the Moratorium began...