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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15I'M HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT LEAVING . . .
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- One of the many American officials stunned by the
- anti-Gorbachev putsch was ROBERT STRAUSS, the Democratic power
- broker whose fondness for creature comforts made him an unlikely
- ambassador to the Soviet Union. "I'm not sure I'm the right guy
- for the job," confessed Strauss in the early hours of the
- crisis. But as he thought about the prospect of taking on the
- hard-liners, Strauss warmed to the challenge. "I guess I could
- tell those motherf--- sons of bitches off," he concluded.
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