□ During his swing across the Pacific, which took him from Alaska to Singapore, Vice President Dan Quayle paused in Hawaii. “Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific,” he noted. “It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.” So far, so good. Then, in Australia, he got into a heated controversy with farmers, denying, implausibly, that U.S. subsidies for grain exports hurt the Australian market. Dan, you’re no Spiro Agnew.
□ In a related development, archaeologists in Israel have found evidence that Neanderthal man may have been able to talk.
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