Word: tarnoff
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...able to count on Washington in a tight spot -- and an opening for those, like Saddam Hussein, who would love to make Clinton's life harder. Last week the appearance of disarray only heightened when Christopher had to disavow lunchtime remarks made to reporters by Under Secretary Peter Tarnoff, the State Department's chief operating officer. Tarnoff's principal sin appeared to be telling unpalatable truths: that the end of the cold war and economic troubles at home required a smaller world role for Washington, which would expect more from its allies and not give the world so firm...
...suffering enormously from the lack of an integrated approach that makes foreign economic policy a primary task of the post-cold war effort," says Peter Tarnoff, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. "Baker's a natural to play that role, and if he's not doing it, it's not being done...