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Feb. 13, 1989: Grapevine
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Feb. 13, 1989 James Baker:The Velvet Hammer
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 38
Grapevine
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<p> SUNUNUED! The reputation for stubbornness and impatience
that John Sununu earned as a three-term New Hampshire Governor
has followed him in his new post as White House chief of staff.
Several senior staffers have griped about "getting Sununued."
When interviewing prospective aides, Sununu often warned them
that the job they sought was either having its salary slashed,
its title diminished, or its access to the President virtually
eliminated -- take it or leave it. Not surprisingly, many of
Sununu's first picks chose to leave it.
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<p> RIP VAN BUSH. In a joke making the rounds in Washington,
George Bush gets bonked on the head and lapses into a coma. He
wakes up in 1992 to find Budget Director Richard Darman at his
bedside. "Golly, Dick," says Bush, "how are things?" Replies
Darman: "In the three years you've been asleep we've got
inflation down to 1%, the GNP is growing at a 4% clip, and
we're actually running a budget surplus." Bush: "Wow. Only 1%
inflation. What does a cup of coffee cost now?" Darman: "Only a
hundred yen."
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<p> ADIOS, TV MARTI? Fidel Castro was not amused when Congress
appropriated $7.5 million last year for a blimp-based television
version of Miami-based Radio Marti, which has beamed anti-Castro
propaganda to Cuba since 1985. To show his displeasure, the
Cuban leader blasted the airwaves two weeks ago with three
300-kw transmitters, disrupting U.S. radio stations as far away
as Minnesota. The U.S. has subsequently decided to reconsider
the whole idea.
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