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...that is fine, and undoubtedly true, but there's another reason for Baker's frenetic shuttling -- the securing of George Bush's re-election in 1992. Many American Jews harbor an inchoate but visceral belief that while Ronald Reagan and George Shultz were seen as instinctive friends of Israel, Bush and Baker are at best neutral toward the Jewish state. "We've reinforced that perception with a series of statements viewed as unfairly squeezing Israel," concedes a State Department official, "but if we can generate even a little progress -- or just the appearance of progress -- the hostility should fade...
...reformers," Gates said in a speech this month, "must overcome not just 70 years of Communist history, but a thousand years of Russian history, a history that has never known government other than autocracy." For such public pessimism, Gates was slapped down first by Secretary of State George Shultz, then by his successor, James Baker. And on Gates' first trip to the Soviet Union, with Baker in 1989, Gorbachev bluntly expressed the hope that Moscow- Washington detente would "put Mr. Gates...
...Nothing ever gets settled in this town," George Shultz once said of Washington. "The debate never stops." Which is why no one can ever decide which side won. It takes so long for the consequences of a critical policy -- say, welfare -- to become apparent, and the results are so murky, that in the end few can remember who said what, assuming those who said anything are still living...
...earned wide esteem in London's business community. He is robustly satirized, however, by the leftish Private Eye in the comic strip Captain Bob. Among his fiercest critics are former employees. One claims Maxwell is so manipulative that he scheduled simultaneous lunches with former Secretary of State George Shultz and Paramount studio owner Martin Davis in different rooms at the same restaurant, shuttling between them on the pretext of taking business calls...
...listsof finalists, one with 69 names and one with 23,to select committees of professors and students inan effort to ensure consensus. The lists includednames from both inside and outside academia, fromboth Harvard and elsewhere. Among the names on thelonger list was that of future Secretary of StateGeorge P. Shultz, who was then director of theOffice of Management and Budget...