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...praises the Bush Administration for realizing that "the answer to the problem of too much debt is not more debt but less." That may sound like mere common sense, but Republicans must overcome a distrust of giveaways and interference in the private sector. "It is an ideological breakthrough," says former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats...
Though he achieved the rank of minister-counselor, the department's third highest career level, Bloch is said to have been disappointed by his failure to become a full ambassador. He boasted to friends that he virtually ran the Vienna embassy under former Ambassador Helene von Damm, a Reagan appointee he regarded with scorn. Bloch got on the wrong side of Von Damm's successor, Ronald Lauder, who sent him packing. Colleagues praise Bloch's work in Washington, though some describe him as dull ("A boring little man," says one). He has been placed on leave and his security passes...
...have to guess about his destination after the election. With Midland suffering hard times, his connection with Harken offered a Dallas base from which to look for a new business and think about politics. But around Thanksgiving he learned from a former partner that a group attempting to buy the Rangers probably would fail to get American League approval. Always fascinated by baseball, Bush hesitated not a moment. Well before opening day in April, he had assembled a syndicate of investors far wealthier than...
...Former Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, 60, who has been nominated as Ambassador to the Bahamas, was more noted for his malapropisms than for any legislative accomplishment during his single term on Capitol Hill. Hecht once declared that he opposed a "nuclear-waste suppository" in his state. In his list of qualifications, he noted that the "life-style of the Bahamas is similar to the life-style of Las Vegas...
...Peter Secchia, 52, a former Republican national committeeman from Michigan, was narrowly confirmed last month as Ambassador to Italy despite press reports alleging frequent profanity and crude behavior toward women. Before arriving in Rome, he endeared himself to his future hosts by joking that the new Italian navy boasts glass-bottom boats "so they can see the old Italian navy...