Article: Baker Back in the Saddle at the State Department:Tutwiler Rejects Criticism That Secretary's Wyoming Vacation Diminished Role in Crisis

Secretary of State James A. Baker III was back in his seventh floor, State Department suite yesterday, having cut short a Wyoming vacation that caused speculation about whether he was, as the Financial Times of London remarked, the "Mr. Invisible" of the Persian Gulf crisis.

Baker went to a Wyoming ranch Aug. 16 after attending President Bush's meeting with Jordan's King Hussein in Kennebunkport, Maine. And, just as questions have been asked about the propriety of the president remaining in the ocean breezes of his summer home while thousands of Americans are bogged down in the sands of the Arabian peninsula, Baker's absence has prompted gossip about whether he has been too far from the ...

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