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Evans (with Rogers in '93), recovering.

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When it came time for **John Whitehead** to introduce U.N. Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright to the United Nations Association's blue-ribbon audience of Establishment types yesterday at New York's St. Regis Hotel, an aide whispered to him that she hadn't arrived yet because her limousine was tied up in Manhattan traffic.

That left Whitehead, former deputy secretary of state and chairman of the association, fidgeting uncomfortably on the podium for several minutes. Then the doors swung open to reveal two TV crews backing into the ballroom with their cameras whirring—a sure sign of a celebrity arrival. “Here she comes,” Whitehead said, only to realize that the grand entrance was by former secretary of state **Henry Kissinger**.

“Henry, nobody told me about your new appointment,” Whitehead ad-libbed gamely. Albright arrived five minutes later.

■ **Foodies, take note.** Chef **Robert Wiedmaier**, most recently of the shuttered Cafe on M and a former Four Seasons Hotel chef, has become executive chef at the Watergate Hotel. That post belonged to the recently departed **Jean-Louis Palladin**.

What's so funny? **Diana Walker**

The hotel's fancy-schmancy Jean restaurant will close, and the slightly fancy-schmancy Palladin will get name, a new concept and an office reopening around Labor Day.

“I’m going to intensify the memory of the intense cooking techniques,” the i

■ **Dale Evans**, 83, wife of “Happy” cowboy Roy Rogers, is recovering stroke she suffered on Mother reports said. She is “doing fine” spokesman for California's Los Medical Center.

■ Another political marriage is

By G.B. Trudeau

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Two for the Road

By Al Kamen

Washington Post Staff Writer

Squash-playing Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), the only senators who refused to cancel their foreign trips during the government shutdown, were returning late yesterday with their spouses and aides after an eight-day trip to Africa and Israel.

The trip was deemed essential because Specter chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence and Shelby is a committee member. But it became a scheduling nightmare as the group changed plans constantly, apparently worried about the need to return to Washington on short notice for a budget vote, according to diplomatic cable traffic. Whole parts of the tour were scrubbed, including Tanzania, Mozambique and Ethiopia, where a visit to see "Lucy" and a squash game had been arranged.

"Late on Dec. 30," one cable read, after the group arrived in South Africa, "CODEL [congressional delegation] decided to drop Durban [South Africa].... As of Dec. 31, CODEL Specter was considering travel directly from Victoria Falls [not heretofore known as a center of foreign intelligence activity] to Aswan, Egypt," site of some spectacular ruins.

Maybe they wanted to plug some intelligence leaks in the dam?

But the CODEL "kept open the possibility of returning to Johannesburg," the cable said, "as they had nonrefundable reservations at Mabula Game Lodge."

Wouldn't want to waste taxpayer dollars, after all.

Despite the squeezed schedule, the group spent a day and a half in Cape Town, which would likely have allowed Specter to take in a squash game arranged at the personal court of prominent Cape Town businessman Ragi Moonsamy, various meetings ending at lunch and then a day of touring and sightseeing.

But by scratching Durban, Specter missed a match with Rod Suter, a local racquet club manager and a ranked provincial player. The group also missed a trip to Phezulu, a traditional Zulu village, where, according to another cable, they were to "attend Zulu dancing exhibition, view village, shopping for Zulu arts and crafts. Major credit cards accepted," the cable noted.

Specter and Shelby did visit with PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in Israel on Tuesday. Specter later played squash with Michael Bussey, 46, director of the very tony Jerusalem YMCA across the street from the King David Hotel:

"I think he uses it, like everybody else, to relax," Bussey said in an exclusive Washington Post interview. "I found him to be a very pleasant man, a good squash player, a good sportsman and we had a lot of fun."

Clearly, a good time was had by all. Except, of course, the furloughed State Department folks who came back to work without pay to carry bags, drive cars and attend to schedule details.

Griffin Leaving It to Old Senate Hand

■ Word is President Clinton has picked longtime Senate hand John L. Hilley, most recently working for Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.),

to replace Patrick Griffin as head of the White House congressional relations operation after Griffin leaves Feb. 1.

Hilley, an economist, has worked at the Congressional Budget Office and was staff director of the Senate Budget Committee when the Democrats were in charge. He then became chief of staff to then-Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) and stayed on as counsel to Daschle.

Hilley gets good marks as a knowledgeable, straightforward player, but he has apparently ruffled some feathers on the Democratic side over the years.

Meanwhile, Steve Richetti, who handles the Senate side of things for Griffin, is also leaving in the next month or so, apparently going back downtown into the political consulting wars. Richetti, who had been executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, had been thinking about leaving for a while and the recent arrival of a third child crystalized his thought process.

Funny how that happens.

DLCer Reed Gets the Call

■ Election years are always good for the more conservative Democratic Leadership Council. So it's no surprise that Bruce Reed, who had been deputy to Domestic Policy Council head Carol Rasco and is one of the few DLCers in the White House, has been declared ready for prime time. Reed has been promoted to a newly created job of assistant to the president for policy development.

His task is to work with the various agencies and White House folks to pull together ideas for Clinton's '96 agenda. That means trying to figure out how a president takes any action in an election year when the other party runs Congress and the majority leader of the Senate is the likely presidential opponent.

Not going to be easy.

It's Official...

■ Clinton says he will nominate Stuart E. Eizenstat, once domestic policy chief under President Jimmy Carter and more recently ambassador to the European Union, to be undersecretary of commerce for international trade.

Eizenstat's new job would put him in charge of the International Trade Administration, managing trade policy development, export promotion, investment policy, commercial relations and business advocacy.

Meanwhile, acting undersecretary David J. Rothkopf, who was mentioned as a possibility for the job, is moving to a job with Kissinger Associates, former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger's consulting firm.

In another trade related move, Clinton has picked Washington lawyer Martin A. Kamarck, husband of Elaine C. Kamarck, senior policy adviser to Vice President Gore, to be president of the Export-Import Bank, an independent government agency that finances the sale of U.S. products abroad.

If confirmed by the Senate, Kamarck will serve as chairman of the board of the Export-Import Bank as well as its president. He is currently its vice chairman.

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