WATCH YOUR MOUTH

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Daniel Spiegel, ambassador to U.N. offices in Geneva, won't be using his international platform as a political pulpit anymore. Pressed by furious GOP congressional leaders, the White House on Thursday reprimanded Spiegel for a speech earlier this month in which he assailed "the forces of reaction and isolation" on Capitol Hill. One reason the ambassador's timing was especially poor: the Administration is trying to persuade GOP Senate Majority leader Bob Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich to agree to repay $1.2 billion owed to the United Nations. Said the two in a letter to President Clinton Wednesday: "If a member of Congress were to go before a foreign audience and, in a prepared address to a foreign audience, attack you or the motives behind your policies, we would be the first to condemn him."