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    "ocrText": "4\nHearst says HAK has always shown \"remarkable aplomb\nin\ncarrying out difficult assignments, 11 but UN speech \"must have been\nan unusually stressful task. 11 Speech \"turned out to be as circumspect\"\nas HAK, as he \"diplomatically avoided potential pitfalls of either\nexcessive promise or unwanted pessimism. 11 Agreeing HAK's reproof\nof UN was \"solid\" and \"justified, 11 Hearst raps UN's \"lack of guts\n[It's] largely been reduced to a noisy forum incapable of even making\na moral condemnation of internat'l terrorism. Its last really decisive\nand proper action\" was Korea.\nTrib's Bill Anderson finds\"1 thread\" running thru opinions re: HAK\nat State: he \"more than has his work cut out for him. 11 For 1 thing,\n\"HAK's a lousy administrator. 11 Also, \"his liberal halo has been badly\nbent if not broken in Eastern Estab. 11 because of taps, says Anderson,\nasserting \"these pimples on smooth PR facade of HAK\nhave direct\nbearing on whether or not he 'll be able to control\" burocrats. Even\nw/out them, tho, \"HAK would've been in for rough sledding.\"\nAnderson reports observers believe \"many if not most tenured policy\nmakers\" at State don't like RN's personality and have fought his\ninitiatives. And because of HAK, State morale dropped and \"the\nforeign service scars aren't healing quickly, tho they ve been\nquickly masked by cosmetics of practicality. 11 Hill sources, says\nAnderson, aren't as concerned about day-to-day operations as they\nare about Mideast, \"fractured relations w/Japan and other trading\nnations, 11 w/some wondering, \"What does HAK really know about\ntrading? Is wheat deal w/USSR an example?' Then, too, \"in 1st\ntest of domestic maneuvering, HAK lost a bout\" w/Meanyy and caused\npro-Admin vote in Ways and Means to vanish. He's also \"angered\nlarge elements of Zionist movement in US\" re: Soviet Jewish question.\nIn conclusion, Trib's Anderson quotes a FSO: \"Hak is going to have\nto make some strong and effective moves if he's to succeed.\""
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