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- <title>
- Sep. 09, 1991: Second Thoughts About Leaving . . .
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- I'm Having Second Thoughts About Leaving...
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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