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...President has shown no sign that he is giving up on Watt. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan found Watt's comment "embarrassing" but accepted his apology. The President is loyal - to a fault, say some of his aides-to those who are loyal to him; Watt has definitely been that. There may also be a tactical reason for Reagan's tolerance for his ill-spoken Interior Secretary. As the Administration has taken increasingly centrist positions, Watt has provided a kind of ideological protection for Reagan's right flank...
...while both DiCara and Kearney trail badly in all recent polls, the potential is there for one or the other to sneak up behind the leaders. Polling has also shown that support for the leaders is "soft," meaning that voters may not remain loyal...
Though the Lebanese claims were presumably exaggerated for propaganda reasons, Western diplomats believe that Syria has allowed between 1,000 and 1,500 Palestinians, many of them loyal to Syrian-based Palestinian Rebel Leader Said Mousa, to join the fighting. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat arrived unexpectedly in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli late last week, perhaps because of his concern over the growing involvement of various Palestinian factions...
DIED. Charles S. Murphy, 74, influential adviser to Presidents; of heart disease; in Anne Arundel County, Md. A reticent lawyer and loyal Democrat, Murphy served as John Kennedy's Under Secretary of Agriculture and Lyndon Johnson's chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, but he was most influential as a member of Harry Truman's "little Cabinet" of advisers and friends, who talked strategy in the White House late into the night...
Nonetheless, the book's publication presages a major housecleaning of the 39 million-member Communist Party, which includes numerous local officials and army officers who rose to power during the Cultural Revolution and have remained loyal to Mao's precepts. A widely circulated government statement has announced that study of Deng's book is "important ideological preparation for an overall party consolidation to be started this autumn and winter." For three years the party rosters will be reviewed, and members with leftist leanings or who are convicted of political or economic crimes are likely to be dropped...