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...directory, a takeoff on the traditional "plum book" of political patronage, has a serious purpose: to stress "the consequences of failure to perform effectively" in sub-Cabinet Government offices. Explains former State Department spokesman John Trattner, who wrote the book: "A prune is a plum with experience...
...passed, but action on the less urgent measure nationalizing the Shah's assets was postponed. The Guardians filed out of the assembly, met solemnly in private and emerged to declare the legislation to be in keeping with Islamic law. Learning of the decision, U.S. State Department Spokesman John Trattner said only: "It's a step in the right direction." Also dampening any euphoria, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie suggested that the Administration would work at the problem right up to the moment that Reagan is inaugurated. "The real deadline is the 20th, not the 16th," he told reporters...
...Administration's initial public response was equally low-key. The Iranian reply was "substantive," said State's Trattner. "It warrants close and intensive study. We cannot yet predict whether it will enable the parties to resolve their remaining differences." In fact, the reply was more constructive-at least on its face-than U.S. diplomats had expected. Observed a senior State Department official: "The response included provisions that are advantageous. They offered prescriptions for dealing with the banks that are improvements over our positions...
With negotiations at such a delicate stage, the Carter Administration was outraged to find that the Soviet Union was trying to stir up new trouble for the U.S. with Iran. Powell and State Department Spokesman Trattner berated the Kremlin over a charge in the official Soviet newspaper Pravda that the U.S. was getting ready to use military force in Iran. On instructions from President Carter, Muskie took the unusual step of summoning Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin for a scolding, terming the newspaper account "scurrilous propaganda" and warning that it could have "lasting effects on U.S.Soviet relations." Speaking for Carter, Powell...
...principle." Just what the Algerian suggestion was all about remained a mystery. The very existence of an independent Algerian "plan" was vehemently denied by both Algerian diplomats and State Department officials. While conceding that the Algerians' role had grown with each exchange of proposals, State Department Spokesman John Trattner insisted that "their role does not make them guarantors...