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...clear anticipation that Joe Wrinn will continue in that office handling the external media work, and hopefully he, with another high-level person, will have a chance to work with some of the high-level media issues," Rowe said in an interview yesterday...
Conoco executives might have recognized the Administration's concerns sooner if contacts between the company and Washington had been more high-level and open from the start. Conoco discussed the Iranian deal only with midrank diplomats at U.S. outposts in Dubai, Kuwait and London, as well as in Washington, repeatedly since 1991--including four times in the past 18 months. Nor did State policymakers ever say they flatly opposed the Iranian negotiations. Michael Stinson, who headed the Conoco project, told Congress last week that "the typical response was, 'The U.S. would prefer that you not do this deal...
...Setting: high-level politics. He: "I headed issues. I was a lawyer." She: "I'm a performance artist...
...treatment accorded Presidents--and former Presidents--of Mexico. So it must have come as a shock when a visitor sent ``as a courtesy'' by current President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon showed up unannounced at Salinas' Mexico City house last Tuesday morning and began ringing the front doorbell. The high-level official, laden with documents, tapes and videos, was bringing evidence that a dramatic new lead had surfaced in the investigation into the murder of one of Mexico's most powerful politicians, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, who was gunned down last September outside a Mexico City hotel...
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott led a high-level U.S. business delegation to Haiti on a two-day mission that the Clinton Administration hopes will trigger quick and massive investment in the hemisphere's poorest country. The task is hardly hopeless: TIME correspondent Tammerlane Drummond reports that recent international aid to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's new government already tops $1 billion -- more, per capita, than any other country in the world has received. Drummond, who recently visited the Haitian capital, says a virtual army of American small businessmen is already swarming Port-au- Prince looking for a piece...