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...bulletin from Manila scored a clear beat for United Press International: Correspondent Max Vanzi, who was on the scene, was thus able to report 3½ hours ahead of his Associated Press rivals, who depended on government spokesmen, that Philippine Politician Benigno Aquino had been shot down moments after returning from exile. Yet when the declarative U.P.I, report and a hedged, uncertain A.P. bulletin came over the wire to the Washington Post shortly after 2 a.m. two weeks ago, editors decided to play it safe and put into their final edition a story saying only that Aquino had been arrested...
...Reagan would undergo a Nixonian metamorphosis, but they probably have no such hopes any longer. Regardless of his tactical and rhetorical readjustments of late, they see him as the most hostile, dangerous American President they have faced since the end of World War II. At almost every level, Soviet spokesmen insist that they will not allow a summit to take place if its principal consequence is to help Reagan politically...
...puckish caller once asked Interior Secretary James Watt during a radio talk show whether his baldness was caused by acid rain. Watt laughed off the wisecrack, as well he might. In spite of rising concern in the Northeast and Canada, Administration spokesmen have repeatedly insisted that nothing could really be done about acid rain and the industry-produced sulfur emissions allegedly behind them until all the scientific facts were in. Suddenly last week, however, facts came raining down like a summer squall, in effect making further scientific debate on what mainly causes the problem all but irrelevant...
...have the expertise to get." Such claims naturally make IBMers bristle. "This is a shibboleth cultivated by certain Wall Streeters," declares Paul Low, manager of the IBM plant in East Fishkill, N.Y. "Nobody who peeks inside any of our 29 laboratories could fall for that nonsense." Company spokesmen like to point out that IBM spent 53 billion on research, development and engineering last year, an amount that exceeds the total revenues of many of its rivals. The firm has also taken the offensive in a new advertising campaign that boasts of the more than 11,000 patents IBM inventors have...
...Spokesmen for the trio of past Presidents say they are judicious about spending Government money. Of $800,000 Carter received for his transition, he returned $128,000. Ford regularly gives back $12,000 to $14,000 a year in expenses. When Nixon moved from Manhattan to a house in Saddle River, N.J., he spent $50,000 of his own money to convert a carport into a Secret Service command post. Ford Aide Robert Barrett defends the federal allowances. Says he: "It's the only reasonable way to deal with what former Presidents have to deal with." -By Maureen Dowd...