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...seem to stand for anything." Reagan denied the story, but a meeting between the two was set up at Reagan's Bel Air home, traditionally off limits for photographers and reporters. In the heated campaign environment, it seemed like a Reagan chill. Last week Reagan was in Los Angeles' posh Regency Club clearing the air: "George Bush was with me in my crusade. I support his candidacy to the fullest...
Doonesbury's got a great tax-cutting plan, and Texas is eager to help. Sunday's Doonesbury strip included a coupon for readers who want to follow George Bush's favorite approach: making his official residence a posh Houston hotel so as to enjoy Texas' nonexistent state income tax. "Howdy!" says the coupon, which is addressed to John Sharp, the Texas comptroller. "I'd like to become a Texan!" Requests are already pouring in, and Sharp is busy sending out real estate ads for would-be residents, along with "Honorary Texan" certificates to get them started...
...zone of quiet around the posh Henry-Dunant hospital in Paris was fractured by a political thunderclap last week with the arrival of George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. His organization has carried out airliner hijackings and bloody terrorist attacks in France, Israel and elsewhere since the late 1960s, including the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane to Uganda that was liberated by Israeli troops. Yet Habash, 65, was routinely admitted to the country and the hospital for treatment of a stroke he suffered in Tunis...
...packs, digs holes in lawns, eats flower gardens, poops around pools and spas and, worst of all, starts screeching as early as 4 a.m. For sheer irritation, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons and possums are no match for the more than 150 wild peacocks that infest this otherwise tranquil, posh Southern California community. The flock -- often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree -- descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
...Toyota, Shoichiro Toyoda is provided with membership in several elite golf clubs. Kume of Nissan receives a company-rented house in a posh Tokyo neighborhood. Nissan also provides its 47 board members with free use of a vacation home in Hakone, a mountain and lake resort area south of Tokyo. Liberal expense accounts routinely cover pricey meals and bar bills that can add up to $1,000 a head for a night...