The Decision-Making Apparatus Romesh Thapar A NUMBER of journalists who survive on gossip are sniffing around the Foreign Office to find out how much Foreign Minister Swaran Singh and Secretary T N Kaul have been embarrassed, or devalued, by the appointment of the roving D P Dhar, variously described in the past but now seen as India's Kissinger( sic !), as the Chairman of the Foreign Policy Board, of the Joint Intelligence Committee and as Co-ordiua- tor for Bangla Desh problems.