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John Wolf to be New U.S. Mideast Envoy
(Jerusalem Post) Janine Zacharia - John Stern Wolf, the assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation, has been tapped by the Bush administration to be Washington's next Middle East envoy, sources close to the administration said Monday. The Middle East point man will head an all-American "coordination group" of approximately a dozen people, which will be an around-the-clock bridge between Israel and the PA and "serve as a monitor, as a mediator, to help them move forward into the first phase of the road map," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday. "Don't think of it in terms of a major envoy, with constant negotiations," Powell said. "We're not into negotiations yet. We are in the early stages....There will be somebody in charge of it, but don't think of a George Mitchell or a special envoy who is going to be sitting around, Camp David style. That is quite a ways off."