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...Perot petition coalition fuses spare-no-expense business sophistication with a giddy volunteer enthusiasm. Despite Perot's pretense of an above-the- fray aloofness from the campaign, the nerve center is on the 11th floor of the same posh north Dallas office tower where his business headquarters is located. Here half a dozen Perot Group employees huddle behind the closed brown door of a war room. A wall map of Texas symbolizes the state's role as the first major petition hurdle; by May 11, Perot needs the signatures of 54,000 voters who did not participate in this year...
...Other Side of the Wind, a made-in-Hollywood story starring John Huston, reached the stage of a 2 1/2-hr. work print. But in 1979 the film, partly financed by an Iranian company, was seized by the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. Don Quixote, which Welles shot in spare moments over three decades, has been edited by director Jesus Franco and will be shown next week at Seville's Expo...
...latest volley, the chiefs of McDonnell Douglas and five other defense-industry giants urged President Bush last week to seek congressional approval quickly for Saudi Arabia's order for 72 of the combat jets and 100 spare engines. "There are those who advocate a wait-and-see posture," the CEOs wrote the President, "but time is something we simply don't have." Unless the sale (long-term value: $13 billion) goes through, the McDonnell Douglas subsidiary that builds the planes in St. Louis and Tulsa will begin a shutdown of its F-15 assembly lines this summer. McDonnell Douglas spokesman...
Brown's amazing resurrection is linked to his small-contributions-only 800 number, which has kept his ascetic, spare-couches-and-coach-seats crusade alive with $3.5 million in pledges and $2 million in actual contributions. Brown may be only the vessel of protest against big-money politics and Clinton's too-slick-for-his-own-good image. But after months lost in what Brown calls "the dark hole of media nonexistence," he is suddenly running nearly even in the Clinton campaign's private polls handicapping the decisive April 7 New York primary...
...CAPTION: Where would you rather go in your spare time...