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...Capitol Hill sources told TIME last week that White House aides helped Donovan's old firm, the Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J., recruit investigators to dig up damaging information about the Government officials who have been pursuing the charges against the Secretary. Philip R. Manuel, a private detective who claims to have a "loose consulting arrangement" with the White House, is believed by these sources to be a talent scout for the New Jersey firm in its hunt for sleuths...
...Manuel also denies that he was the middleman between the White House and Schiavone in hiring the detectives. Like Shortley, he is a close friend of Hickey's and was once a client of Meese's law firm in California. Indeed, Meese and Hickey tried to employ Manuel as a White House consultant not long after Reagan's Inauguration last year. Hickey put through a formal request to hire Manuel and gave the sleuth a temporary White House pass that was valid until April 1981. Hickey, whose duties include overseeing Air Force One and Camp David, says...
Hickey claims that by March 1981 he had concluded that he did not need Manuel's services. TIME has learned that the hiring was actually scrapped by Hickey's boss, Michael Deaver, deputy chief of staff at the White House. Deaver was annoyed that Hickey had apparently secured Meese's approval to employ Man uel; jealous of his bureaucratic turf, Deaver ordered the hiring stopped...
Even the country's main opposition groups, despite their criticism of the ruling junta's internal policies and dismal economic performance, have strongly backed the leadership on this issue. Explained Air Force Chaplain Father Roque Manuel Puyelli, who spent three weeks on the occupied islands: "The Argentine people are certain about this war and what it means. Only two days before the invasion everybody could sense the dissension within the country, problems with the working classes. After the invasion, all the other problems went back behind the curtain, a long way away." Not surprisingly, government officials have been...
...Souza said that Ralph Manuel, dean of the college, wrote a letter accusing the paper of printing "racist, sexist and ethnic slurs and other matter of obviously bad taste." Review editors hope Reagan's letter will answer such criticism, D'Souza said...