NATION AND WORLD
Reagan's image suffers because of staff change
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By United Press International
University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1984
WASHINGTON — A realignment of President Reagan's senior staff has evamped image-shaping in the White House, highlighted some White House turf battles and caused concern among some presidential aides.
Image-building is basic in politics, and over the past three years Reagan's own image-shapers have done much to advance the belief that this White House is better at the game than its predecessors.
With his actor's eye for the camera, Reagan is touted as "The Great Communicator." His new "communications czar" is chief protector Michael Deaver, a former public relations man whose main concern is ensuring that Reagan is seen only in the most favorable settings.
Now, however, there are signs the new image operation is not running as well as expected, with the most challenges of the election year still ahead.
"Some of the things we do just don't make any sense," one Reagan aide said in frustration last week. "And this is one more case for mistakes or for bad judgments."
Among the "bad judgments" cited during the week were decisions on which events reporters were allowed to cover, consistent with a practice of
opening only events deemed most phragmatic or beneficial to the White Foods
March 19, for example, reporters and photographers were permitted to watch the protests.
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health of the small-business community but were barred from a subsequent speech to Cuban-Americans at which the president made a forceful pitch for his Central America policy, which has been in trouble in Capitol Hill.
"These people have to get their act together if they're going to compete against the Democrats running around it with 'their unholy" identity," said one Republican strategist.
Since the departure of Communications Director David Gergen, such decisions have been the province of chief image-maker Deaver, whose judgments on what the president should do in response to the emergency have raled others in the White House.
Some print reporters who thought the White House was too quick to emphasize the visual — form over substance — have been even more critical since Deaver took over. Presidential aides have spoken of how the White House has spread into such related areas as communication with Congress and scheduling.
Helicopter forced to land as duck hits windshield
By United Press International
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — A medical helicopter carrying an amputation patient was forced into an emergency landing when a duck shattered its windshield, smacked the pilot's forehead and ricocheted around the cabin, authorities said yesterday.
"It came right through the glass and struck the pilot in the forehead," state police spokesman Dan McCarthy said of the incident Saturday night. "It was apparently a very large duck."
"There have been a couple (previous) incidents with birds, but nothing of this size or potential for mishap," McCarthy said. "In this case, the bird's population's speed and the size of the bird caused a dangerous situation."
He said the mishap caused the state police helicopter to pitch upward and out of control before a crash, which was safely at a nearby municipal airport.
The pilot, Cpl. Steve McCarter, was treated and released at Peninsula General Hospital for minor neck and shoulder wounds.
"We still have the duck, or what's left of it," McCarthy said.
By United Press International
De Lorean trial plays to full house
LOS ANGELES — Heads turn when 6-foot-4 John D. De Leon saunters through the federal courthouse. People gawk, some ask for an autograph, and others — ignoring decorum — pull out a pocket camera and snap a photograph.
The People vs John De Lorean — starring the dashing silver-haired automaker, his fashion-model wife, Cristina, and a supporting cast of — has been playing in a courtroom off Spring Street since March 13.
A pack of reporters await the arrival of the principles each day, and the proper procedure is taken.
crowd, a testimony to De Lorean's drawing power considering, the tedium of jury selection. Opening arguments and testimony are coming attractions.
D. Leorean, 59, a former executive with General Motors Corp., is on trial for allegedly financing the importation of $24 million worth of cocaine in hopes of using the profits to pump life into his dying sports-car firm. He claims he was framed by government agents.
The lengthy jury selection process is being conducted in three parts, with a pool of 177 prospective jurors being screened on the basis of their personal backgrounds and exposure to extensive pre-trial public. The process resumes tomorrow and is expected to take about 2½ weeks.
Defense lawyers have said they suspect the "glamour" of the De Lorean trial has made many people anxious to sit on the jury, resulting in "less than truthful answers" during the screening process, which involves filling out a long questionnaire and being interviewed by lawyers.
"There's a lot of people who want to hear the case," defense attorney Howard Weitzman has said. "I think they're shading their answers to give us more information. They think we want to hear so they have better chance of being selected."
De Lorean is free on $5 million bail.
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