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...Government to keep its own secrets. Reporters are surprised and incredulous when Reagan tells Barbara Walters that what troubles him most after a year in office is leaks. The press looks the other way when the Pentagon asks senior officials to take humiliating lie-detector tests in a futile effort to stop leaks. Nor does it worry too much about the motives of a leaker, only whether he is peddling trustworthy goods...
...Poland, and the Washington Post has reported on a secret Pentagon study indicating that military costs over the next five years may be $750 billion more than now projected. Furor about this latter leak prompted Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and some associates to volunteer to take lie-detector tests to show they were not culpable. Even as the White House was considering new ways of dealing with the problem, word was beginning to leak about another sensitive matter: the Administration's decision to sell Taiwan F-5E fighter jets, rather than the more advanced model it had requested...
City councilor David Sullivan, a proponent of the original detector ordinance, said yesterday HRE should have been able to comply with the law by the time it took effect this month. "They've had 19 months," Sullivan said, adding tenants might be able to withhold rents until the detectors were installed. The Harvard Tenants Union mentioned the delay in a letter to Zeckhauser last week...
...about security for Washington's 39th successor to the presidency, the prudent but unromantic federal agents forced the play-acting colonial troops to surrender all but a few of their 50 cannons, temporarily confiscated their flints and black powder and subjected each make-believe soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including the Barnstable Militia of Cape Cod, some...
...months without professional commitments. She plays with Gippy, escapes with her husband whenever they can to a tree farm they bought not long ago in Dutchess County, and when she is in Manhattan tries to stay out of midtown, where every tourist comes equipped with a celebrity detector. She and Gummer are moving from his loft in Tribeca, an area in downtown Manhattan favored by artists, to a larger but equally unpretentious place just to the north, in Little Italy. Streep is now and forever a New Yorker, without a trace of a tan or of West Coast show...