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GRAPEVINE, Page 11
By JANICE CASTRO
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If Jim Baker takes over management of the sputtering Bush
re-election campaign, Deputy Secretary LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER will
fill his shoes at State. Even so, President Bush is unlikely to
nominate Eagleburger as his new Secretary of State. A former
ambassador to Yugoslavia, Eagleburger has become a subject of
the House Banking Committee inquiry into charges that the Reagan
and Bush Administrations improperly allowed Iraq to use U.S.
funds and sensitive American technology to build its war
machine. The committee is also probing Eagleburger's actions as
a onetime director of a Yugoslav bank that was later convicted
of money laundering. Eagleburger has not been linked directly
to any illegal or improper activities. But rather than endure
the messy publicity that confirmation hearings would generate
in the midst of the election season, Bush will probably ask
Eagleburger to soldier on as Acting Secretary.
Here's the Thing: He Was Rude
Now that ROSS PEROT has agreed to testify next week before
the Senate committee investigating the MIA issue, many families
of missing veterans will tune in eagerly. They are likely to be
disappointed. Senate sources say Perot, who has claimed to have
evidence of live MIAS, had nothing persuasive to offer in the
six-hour deposition he gave them in Dallas last month. Instead,
they say, he spent most of his time complaining about his
relationship with George Bush, calling the President a
fair-weather friend who wouldn't return his phone calls.
The Terrorist Bounty Hunters
When it comes to blocking terrorist plots, the U.S. has
learned, cold cash works. Since 1989, the State Department has
run an interagency task force, called Rewards Program for
Terrorism Information, that pays bounties for tips on attack
plans. So far the task force, which combines the efforts of the
National Security Agency, the FBI and CIA, Interpol and other
agencies, has been contacted by snitches in 60 nations and has
paid more than $2 million in bounties. Its most dramatic coup:
a tip during the Gulf War that Saddam's agents planned to attack
a U.S. airline installation in Bangkok. Says a State Department
official: "We were able to prevent an attack in which probably
hundreds of lives would have been lost." Reward: $1 million.
GM to GE: Japan Does It Better
General Motors is reviewing all contracts with its 5,000
suppliers in search of ways to firm up quality while trimming
as much as $4 billion, or 13%, from its $30 billion
parts-and-supplies budget. As a result, its longtime
relationship with GENERAL ELECTRIC is on the line. A GM supplier
since the 1920s, GE makes 60 million tiny light bulbs every year
for GM dashboard displays, trunks and glove compartments. Now
GM has located a Japanese company whose light bulbs cost 20%
more but last 40% longer, and it has challenged GE to close the
savings gap.
SCORECARD
Bush campaign spokeswoman Torie Clarke last week
criticized Clinton and Gore for indulging in family therapy.
Said she: "Real men don't get on the couch." That depends, of
course, on one's party affiliation. A Campaign Guide for Real
Men:
R: Dread the couch
D: Dread August, when therapists are away
R: Brandish lifetime N.R.A. memberships
D: Boast about high A.D.A. ratings
R: Campaign at stock-car races
D: Take the family along on the campaign bus
R: Blame government for problems
D: Blame the rich
R: Go hunting
D: Play softball
R: Never eat broccoli
D: Have a favorite broccoli recipe
R: Get sick in Japan
D: Get sick in Mexico
R: Hold press conferences
D: Schmooze with Donahue
R: Prefer Sousa
D: Prefer Fleetwood Mac
R: Protect women
D: Elect women
CAMPAIGN QUIZ
Q: Which U.S. Presidents beat these candidates to win the
White House?
A Henry Clay
B William Jennings Bryan
C Thomas Dewey
A:
A John Quincy Adams (1824), Andrew Jackson (1832) and
Martin Van Buren (1836)
B William McKinley (1896 and 1900) and William Howard Taft
(1908)
C Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944) and Harry Truman (1948)