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POLITICAL BRIEFING

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<i> From Times' staff writers</i>

WAITING GAME: Although President Bush’s two-day California visit late last week heartened some of his partisans, concerns about drift and disarray within his reelection campaign deepen among Republican insiders. And the protracted wait for Secretary of State James A. Baker III--who is expected to assume command of the reelection team soon--has only intensified those worries. . . . While Baker remains busy on the foreign front, his anticipated job change has undermined the authority of White House Chief of Staff Samuel K. Skinner and campaign chairman Robert M. Teeter. “It was already paralyzed,” said one GOP consultant working closely with the campaign. “And what (the wait for Baker) has done is to further paralyze it. It has exacerbated the mess.”

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