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Some of Reagan's other apparent choices would be totally new to the national scene. Drew Lewis, 49, a Pennsylvania businessman who was Reagan's personal envoy to the Republican Nation al Committee during the campaign, is being touted for Secretary of Transportation; Manuel Lujan Jr., 52, a little-known New Mexico Republican Congressman, is being discussed for Secretary of the Interior; Raymond Donovan, 50, an even lesser-known New Jersey contractor with a reputation for getting along with blue-collar unionists, is being tapped to become Secretary of Labor...
Financial pressure is another reason for the growth of ROTC. At Northwestern, tuition, room and board cost $8,285. Observes the school's commanding officer, Captain Manuel B. Sousa: "If students here can keep their noses above water academically and pass the physical, it's virtually guaranteed that we can put them on full scholarship." Nationally, 10% of the Army's ROTC cadets receive full scholarships for up to four years. All the services pay for attendance at advanced summer camps; upper-level ROTC members also earn up to $1,000 annually for their campus training. Scholarship...
...Hanigan case began on a hot August morning in 1976, when three Mexicans set out from Agua Prieta to seek work in Arizona. The trio-Manuel Garcia, Bernabe Herrera and Eleazar Ruelas-slipped across the border and soon stopped to refill their water jug on land leased by the Hanigans. A man, later identified by the Mexicans as Thomas Hanigan, drove by in a pickup truck and yelled out, "Hey, wetbacks, where are you going? Are you going to steal or rob?" Hanigan allegedly forced the Mexicans into his truck at gunpoint and then summoned his father George...
...finding a male and a female psychologist to do a show together. Says a KGO spokeswoman: "Everyone in the industry saw what Toni Grant did to the ratings, and now everybody wants to copy her. She grows on you." Grant's own station has hired U.C.L.A. Psychologist Manuel Smith, who wrote the 1975 bestseller When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, to hold forth on weekends at a part-time salary of $18,000 a year...
With MacArthur and the doomed garrison on Corregidor was MacArthur's old friend Manuel Quezon, 63, the first President of the Philippines. Quezon, suffering from tuberculosis, wanted a ship to evacuate him, but MacArthur said it was too risky. The U.S. War Department also wanted Quezon evacuated, but MacArthur said it could not be done...