Word: state
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...great place for a powwow -- but a superpower rendezvous? This week's meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze takes place not in Washington or New York City but Wyoming's remote Grand Teton National Park, a glorious setting and a logistical nightmare. At a modern-day campsite near Jackson Hole, advance men have hauled in satellite dishes, encryption machines, secure telephones, simultaneous-translation systems, crates of computers, hundreds of pounds of barbecue and a gift box of hand-tooled cowboy boots...
When George Bush appointed his friend of 30 years to run the State Department, there was speculation that Baker might actually function as an unofficial Deputy President. A former Treasury Secretary, White House chief of staff and three-time presidential campaign chairman, Baker was expected to be the power next to the throne. That conjecture has so far been wrong...
Foreign service professionals have loudly criticized their boss for freezing them out and surrounding himself with longtime aides. "He's running a mini- NSC, not State," complained a senior diplomat. "We learn what our policy is when we read it in the newspapers...
...Baker announced from the outset that he intended to be the President's man at State and not State's man at the White House. If U.S. foreign policy lacks vision, the shortcoming may stem less from Baker than from Bush, who reacts better than he anticipates...
West Bank leaders and the Palestine Liberation Organization were debating whether Mubarak's deliberate omission of any reference to an eventual Palestinian state was too much of a sop to Israeli sensibilities to warrant acceptance. They are also concerned because the P.L.O. is excluded from direct participation. For their part, four senior Cabinet officials could not even agree whether to acknowledge the Egyptian proposal, since doing so would in effect admit that the Shamir plan had been supplanted. Insisting his own initiative must be answered first, Shamir's dour response to Egypt: You agree to the principles of our plan...