"Teeter and Skinner are very much aware of the need for a series of initiatives and a fresh-looking policy apparatus throughout the year," one official said.

But that very distance may have contributed to an atmosphere where security council warnings did not get beyond the foreign policy apparatus, some officials said.

In early 1938 Hitler asserted his control of the military-foreign policy apparatus by, in part, sacking Neurath.

The nation's foreign policy apparatus is "a mess," he told a committee hearing today.

As threats and challenges to our nation have changed, our defense and foreign policy apparatus have struggled to adjust.

Our foreign policy apparatus is geared toward relations with states: negotiating with states, confronting states.

Dissent within the Government's foreign policy apparatus over high-profile and contentious issues is nothing new, and neither are such resignations.

Of course it makes sense to adapt, and even streamline, America's foreign policy apparatus in the wake of the cold war's end.

This may suit Russia's foreign policy apparatus, which long ago learned that low-cost oil equals influence.

He had held the appointments hostage in an effort to force the Administration to shrink its foreign policy apparatus.