SLIDING ALMOST NOISELESSLY THROUGH CONGRESS MASKED BY ALL THE TROUBLES BREAKING OUT ABROAD IS A BILL THAT WOULD GIVE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS - ALONG WITH OTHER CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES - A 4 PER CENT PAY RAISE

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Quick Pullout From Grenada ... Gerald Ford for
Mideast Envoy? ... Ed Meese Nails His Target
The White House immediately start-
ed pressing the Pentagon to pull
American forces out of Grenada as
quickly as possible. Talks with their
own pollsters and Capitol Hill lobby-
ists convinced Reagan's aides that
two weeks of occupation by Ameri-
can troops is all they have before they
start losing both public and congres-
sional support.
There's a new name floating around
Washington to take over as Reagan's
special envoy to the Middle East. It's
that of Gerald Ford, who supporters
say managed to get along with both
the Arabs and the Israelis when he
was President and who would wield
badly needed added influence in the
prestige-conscious region.
* * *
A visit by President Reagan to Do-
ver, Del., where bodies of Marines
slain in Beirut were being processed,
was considered and quickly rejected.
Aides concluded that the last thing
Reagan will need in his 1984 re-elec-
tion'campaign is circulation of news
photographs showing him with the
coffins of servicemen.
* * *
Secret Service agents have concluded
that it was a mistake for the President
to try telephoning a man who held
':(1hite House aides at gunpoint while
d eagan played golf nearby in Augus-
ta, Ga. They fear it will only encour-
age others to seize hostages in order
to talk to the President and bask in
the glow of accompanying publicity.
* * *
It was Edwin Meese, counselor to the
President, who orchestrated Reagan's
Will Lebanon turn into Reagan's
Iran? White House political advisers
warned the President that he risks the
same fate that befell predecessor Jim-
my Carter. They foresee public sup-
port rallying around Reagan at first
after the Marine massacre, butgradu-
ally eroding and turning into bitter
attacks that could even cost him the
Presidency in 1984 unless he moves
to get U.S. troops out of danger.
* * *
Britain's Prime Minister Thatcher
wouldn't win any popularity contests
among Republicans these days. The
President's backers feel she caved in
to domestic pressures-and showed
ingratitude for American aid during
the Falklands War-by refusing to
support the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
* * *
Jesse Jackson's strong attack on Rea-
gan for invading Grenada-and his
denouncing of Democratic leaders
for not joining him-removed any
lingering doubts in the minds of most
political analysts that he intended to
run for President. What's more, close
associates of the civil-rights clergy-
man already had their spots on his
campaign team picked out.
* * *
Reagan got so caught up in the drama
of the invasion of Grenada that he
kept track of practically every move
in the fighting. Instead of following
his normal procedure of letting Sec-
retary of State Shultz and Defense
Secretary Weinberger do most of the
talking during a briefing for key
members of Congress, the President
kept interrupting to answer mem-
bers' questions himself.
the Civil Rights Commission. Meese Visitors to the U.S. Capitol soon will
decided, after weeks of fruitless nego- find security tightened. Police were
nations over replacing the trio with shocked to discover, in a little-publi-
different appointees, that even blister- cized October incident, that a man
mg criticism for the unprecedented arrested for acting strangely in the
action would be preferable to letting House visitors'gallery was carrying a
rh,. ...trc,o on bomb that-had it not malfunc-
tioned-could have destroyed most
of the gallery and crowded chamber.
Two hotly debated bills ran out of
time in the Senate amid the uproar
over Lebanon and Grenada. Republi-
can Majority Leader Howard Baker
passed word that it's now too late to
deal this year with measures lifting
price controls on natural gas and limit-
ing proposed access charges for long-
distance telephone calls.
* * *
Ethel Kennedy received many letters
of sympathy after her son Robert was
arrested on charges of possessing her-
oin and entered a hospital for treat-
ment. She told friends that one of the
most touching notes came from Nan-
cy Reagan, long a crusader against
drug abuse among the young.
It * *
Agriculture Secretary Block is send-
ing this blunt signal to countries that
subsidize their farm goods and under-
cut American prices: Unless those na-
tions curb such practices, the United
States intends to adopt the same tac-
tics and flood markets with a torrent
of crops from the world's greatest
agricultural producer.
* It *
Senator Nancy Kassebaum isn't giv-
ing up yet on her crusade to cut U.S.
contributions to the United Nations.
The Kansas Republican's latest com-
plaint: U.N. officials spent 2 million
dollars on a 10-day visit to Vienna to
discuss world crime.
lSliding almost noiselessly through
Congress masked by all the troubles
breaking out abroad is a bill that
would give members of Congress--
along with other civilian government
employes-a 4 percent pay raise. Ap-
proved by the House in late October,
the measure increasing lawmakers'
salaries to $72,592 faces little opposi-
tion in the Senate.
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