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- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: Who's Minding The War?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- My Summer Vacation or WHO'S MINDING THE WAR?
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- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray//Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> 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?
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> Secretary of State James Baker is on his Wyoming homestead
- but is spending most of his time on the phone with foreign
- leaders.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> The President invited National Security Adviser Brent
- Scowcraft to Maine before the crisis. The visit has become a
- marathon.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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