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Clearly, the briefing-book fuss had renewed old rivalries among the Reagan aides. Casey and Meese seemed to be trying to focus responsibility on Baker, a relative newcomer in the Reagan staff hierarchy who is viewed by the Republican right as too much of a moderating influence on the President. Meese, however, cannot separate himself that neatly from another instance of Carter White House information reaching the Reagan election staff. Richard Allen, Reagan's former National Security Adviser, has admitted receiving on three occasions what he calls "innocuous, trite, useless, nonsubstantive, nonclassified and unsolicited material" from Carter...
Still, the Administration's handling of the miniscandal did much to feed the inquisitiveness of reporters. Reagan had first dismissed the fuss as "much ado about nothing." Budget Director David Stockman, who had used the papers while playing the role of Carter to rehearse Reagan for the debate, claimed that he did not know how the documents had been acquired. Chief of Staff James Baker readily admitted having seen the book and said he got it from CIA Director William Casey, who was then Reagan's campaign manager. Casey said he had "no recollection" of having seen...
Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 49, the husband of TV Sportscaster Phyllis George, and a dark-horse presidential aspirant, is not a target of the probe. But the investigation is focused squarely on one of his best buddies. The Governor was obliged to answer questions about the fuss at a press conference last week. Though the FBI and the local U.S. Attorney will not comment officially, a main subject of the probe is James Lambert, who owns a local discothèque and whose home had been under surveillance by state and federal investigators...
...some Gerrymandering of the clues to conceal her ex-lover's identity. So still high on the list of suspects is Andrew Peacock, 44, a dashing member of Australia's last Conservative government, who is a longstanding friend of the actress. MacLaine now considers all the fuss a bother. "Affairs of state," she told a pack of sleuthing British reporters, "are more important than the state of my affairs...
...Shop on Plymouth St. to talk politics. "There's a lot of pretty important decisions that are made in the barber shop," says proprietor John Zentz, chairman of Marshall County's Republican Party. The decisions aren't always earth-shaking, but we get some things done without making a fuss. "Barbering ($4 a cut) doesn't interfere. "Oh, my customers are extremely tolerant," Zentz explains. "I just keep on working and I guess they trust...