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2A THE SUN FRIDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1992 COMMENTARY PEOPLE AND PLACES INSIDE TT be a debate night: Suddenly I'm irresistible A A ir a i i r. i i tt' I bomb squad member searches central uirmingnam, ungiana, aunng a security sweep before The World The pilots of Korean Airlines Flight 007 gave no Indication they knew a Soviet missile had struck them as the Jumbo Jet fell toward the sea in 1 983, according to cockpit transcripts. Page 3A Defying the world community and his own political chief, the commander of the Serbian rebel air force refuses to relinquish his aircraft to United Nations supervision.

Page 22A The Nation The letters "USA" and etched into a Laotian rice paddy four years ago could have been distress signals from American POWs. according to testimony to a Senate committee. But, U.S. intelligence says the symbols have not been linked to any unaccounted-for POWs. Page 3A About 44 million Americans on Social Security will receive a 3 percent cost-of-living increase next year while members of Congress will see their paychecks go up 3.2 percent.

Page 4 A FBI Director William S. Sessions' top aide Is placed on leave for the purpose of firing her as his allies criticize a Justice Department probe of allegations that he abused official perks and tried to avoid paying local income taxes. Page 1 1 A Today Jackie Lanier Is one of a growing number of African Americans with a passion for black memorabilia. She and about 5,000 others will be at the Black MemorabiliaCollectibles Show and Sale this weekend in and around Washington. Page IB Sports The Budweiser International tomorrow at Laurel Race Course will have its smallest field since 1983.

The entries are elite, with five of the eight horses owned by a prince, a sheik or a baron. Page ID Maryland One of the largest marijuana crops ever found In Maryland, worth an -estimated $2 million, is discovered on an artillery firing range at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Page IE Key state lawmakers scramble to drum up support for cutting $147 million in aid to local governments as local officials try to deal with the potential ramifications. Page IE Maryland Live Actor-director Gary SInese's new version of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," starring John Malkovich as Lenny, is a reverential retelling of this classic American novel. Page 4 ROGER SIMON radio as soon as the debate is ended.

And they know the voters don't ignore their newspapers the next morning. They know the way in which the press portrays the debate Bush weak! Clinton smug! Perot folksy! may be as Important as the debate itself. And so for four evenings during the campaign, the four evenings of the presidential and vice presidential debates, the campaigns love us. And cannot do enough for us. Want to reach Ross Perot these days? Ha.

From the day of his announcement until a few days ago, he had neither a press conference nor a public appearance. But then, lo and behold, following the first presidential debate, Perot had both. In a hotel about 1 5 miles from the debate site, his campaign rented a hotel room and set up about 100 chairs for the press. Only about four print reporters showed up, however. Why? Because the Perot campaign staff, having cleansed Itself of political experts, had nobody to tell them why most reporters could not possibly leave the debate site following the debate in order to talk to an actual candidate for president.

The debate site Is where the reporters were getting spun. And reporters could not miss hearing an interpretation of events in order to attend an actual event. And so most reporters missed one of the warmest and oddest moments of the campaign; Perot Introducing each member of his family, Including his wife, son, daughters, sons-in-law and daughter-in-law and telling wild and woolly anecdotes about each. And then Perot took question after question from the press and when the reporters had exhausted themselves, he concluded In a most unusual fashion: "I love you guys," Ross Perot told us. Oh, sure.

On debate nights, they all love us. But I doubt that they respect us In the morning. FORGET Z3 I it behind figures in a bas-relief REUTERS for today's summit aimed at tighter union. "He's a delightful man," Christina Deaton said of Mr. Quayle but added that Mr.

Clinton "will do better for the poor and working poor." In his debate with Democrat Al Gore, Mr. Quayle spoke of meeting woman in Mlddletown who turned down Job offers because they came with no health insurance. Ms. Deaton, 31 told the Dayton Daily News that she met Mr. Quayle In May when he toured the public housing complex where she lives.

Bardot weds for fourth time Former international film star Brigitte Bardot has married for the fourth time. The 58-year-old actress and animal rights activist wed Bernard d'Ormale, 51, an adviser to France's extreme-right leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in a private ceremony Aug. 16 In Norway, a spokesman said yesterday. Birthdays Actress Angela Lansbury is 67. Former presidential adviser Charles W.

Colson is 6 1 Compiled from wire reports by Steve McKerrow Sun Classifieds Call 539-7700 "THE REAL SAVINGS ON TV ANTENNA AND SATELLITE CALL TODAY 1'800-USA'SEARS 0R1-80O872-7327 REPAIRS SERVICE l-C Proudly Offers MM RICHMOND The campaigns Save told you that watching these cbates is your way of seeing the candidates unfiltered. The candidates are reaching you, they say, without the filter of the news media getting in the way. But if that were true, why are the campaigns kissing up to us reporters like they were Chapstlck salesmen at a mistletoe convention? Never have the media been treated so well. Campaign aides and even candidates who haven't returned our phone calls for months are now pounding our backs and whispering in our ears. I sit at a press table behind my computer.

Torle Clarke, campaign spokesperson for George Bush, appears before me. 'Would you like to talk to Fred Malek?" she asks. Would I like to talk to Fred Malek, George Bush's campaign manager? Would I like to talk to Fred Malek, the man I have severely criticized in print for his despicable actions when he was Richard Nixon's hatchet man? The better question is would Fred Malek like to talk to me? But of course he would. On debate nights, Fred Malek will talk to anybody. And so Malek appears before me.

think the key thing Is for the last Six months the campaign has been about the past state of the U.S. economy," he says. "Now it is time to get off the past. Now it is time to concentrate on who's got the right agenda for the future." I write this down in my notebook as If this guff actually meant something. 'What Malek Is doing, as you know by now, is "spinning." People think the word comes from campaign aides putting their own spin or interpretation on events, like a pool player might put spin on a cue ball A better metaphor, however.

Is to imagine the spin cycle of your washing machine: It's when everything swirls round and round and all the Juices get sucked out of It. Now you have a better understanding of spin. But wait. Remember how 1 began by saying the campaigns like debates because they can reach voters without going through the filter of the press? If that were true, however, then wbylbother with spin? Why bother ipaktng a pitch to all of us media filters? Because the campaigns know that debates do not really eliminate the filter, that's why. They know that voters don't click off the TV or THE SUN PUBLISHER Michael J.

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