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...findings will filter out, in phone calls to Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, in his own writing and speeches. The trip was his; his idea, his arrangements. The flap about who knew, or didn't know, where he was going and what he was doing is ridiculous, meaningless. Nixon brushes by the subject as he focuses on a larger problem...
...while making cold-eyed deals. And his campaign fund is brimming: $1.1 million banked, drawing 17% interest. Says State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, no relation and not always a friend: "It appears there's a guardian angel watching over Jerry Brown." But the Medfly uproar is the biggest flap besetting the moonbeam Governor...
...first it looked like a fleeting flap, handled swiftly and skillfully by the Administration to limit the damage. Max Hugel, a millionaire merchant with no visible qualifications to hold his post as director of clandestine operations for the CIA, had been publicly accused of illegal stock manipulations by two vengeful Wall Street brokers who had gone bankrupt trying to promote stock in Hugel's former business. Denying any wrongdoing, Hugel nevertheless promptly resigned as the CIA's deputy director of operations and was quickly replaced by a career CIA operative, John Henry Stein. Sighed a White House aide...
...Britain now has the highest divorce rate in Western Europe: two for every five marriages (a 1979 total of 163,000 in England and Wales). Even the church hierarchy has been affected. Last month Suffragan Bishop Stephen Verney of Repton was married to a divorcee, setting off an untidy flap among conservative churchmen. At present, many Anglicans are remarried in civil ceremonies and are then blessed privately by a priest. Other couples resort to Methodist marriages, lie to Anglican clergy about previous marriages, or simply live together...
...flap began at a hotel bar in Wellington, New Zealand. State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer and Politico-Military Affairs Director Richard Burt, who were accompanying Haig on his two-week swing through the Pacific, asked Bernard Gwertzman of the New York Times and Karen Elliot House of the Wall Street Journal to join them for drinks. With Fischer glancing at notes, the two aides blamed Kirkpatrick for fouling up negotiations on the U.N. resolution. They claimed she ignored instructions from the National Security Council and initially supported a resolution that called for economic sanctions against Israel, urged nations to review...