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When the President sends his Secretary of State abroad on as urgent a mission as heading off a war, a suitable plane would presumably be available. Not so. Of the five Air Force jets normally kept at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington for long-range VIP missions, two were ferrying Ronald Reagan's party around the Caribbean; one was hauling junketing Congressmen to the Middle East and Africa; one was slated to take other Congressmen and their wives to the Caribbean area, and the fifth was down for repairs. So Haig was assigned to a back...
...security was extraordinary. As U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan watched a joint demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras at the President...
...architect President, designed parts of the White House. Now with Ronald Reagan, the thespian President, there are plans to build a movie-set White House in the Maryland suburbs. The Secret Service plans to put up the mock White House (and a false-front Blair House, the nearby VIP guest quarters) so that its burgeoning presidential security force can properly learn the particulars of the presidential mansion. With 3,000 recruits being trained this year, maneuvers are difficult to conduct around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Explains Special Agent Mary Ann Gordon: "It's better if you know...
...summoned reporters to complain about Steinbrenner's threats to fire him. A onetime Yankee shortstop, coach, farm-system manager and general manager of the club under Steinbrenner, Michael, 43, persisted in holding to the old-fashioned notion that the manager in the dugout, not the owner in a VIP box, knows best when to call on a relief pitcher. Said Michael: "It's not fair that he criticizes me and threatens to fire me all the time. I'd rather he do it than talk about...
Sitting in the VIP gallery near Nancy Reagan, White House Congressional Liaison Max Friedersdorf thought he counted some 70 Democrats standing up too. Said he jokingly to an aide: "Can't we count this as our vote and pack up and go home?" Friedersdorf was referring to the fact that Reagan needs up to 40 Democrats to join the Republicans, minus a small number of defectors, in order to carry his program through the Democratic-controlled House. Behind Reagan at the Speaker's desk, Democrat Tip O'Neill noted the applauding members of his party, turned...