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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21My Summer Vacation or WHO'S MINDING THE WAR?
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- One of the minor debates of the Persian Gulf crisis is
- whether President Bush should be spending the dog days of
- August taking his ease in Kennebunkport, Me. How have other key
- players in his Administration responded to the vacation or
- not-to-vacation dilemma?
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- As planned for several months, Vice President DAN QUAYLE was
- relaxing in Arizona last week. This week, barring a megacrisis,
- he will be visiting his home state of Indiana.
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- Secretary of State JAMES BAKER is on his Wyoming homestead
- but is spending most of his time on the phone with foreign
- leaders.
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- Secretary of Defense DICK CHENEY had booked part of August
- off in Wyoming, but thanks to Saddam Hussein, he has instead
- seen a lot of the Middle East.
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- The President invited National Security Adviser BRENT
- SCOWCROFT to Maine before the crisis. The visit has become a
- marathon.
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- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff COLIN POWELL had
- planned to take a week off at his Washington home. He had
- scheduled the same thing before the invasion of Panama.
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- The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, WILLIAM
- WEBSTER, was spotted last week on a golf course in northern
- Michigan. On one round, Webster shot a 105.
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