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- VIDEO VS. VIREO. Other moviemakers have eyed the dense swamp
- and towering willows along the Santa Ana River in California's
- Riverside County, but have been denied filming rights because
- it is one of the last preserves of the endangered least Bell's
- vireo, a tiny songbird now down to about 300 pairs worldwide.
- But when producers decided the site was right for scenes in a
- forthcoming CBS-TV movie about ex-Lieut. Colonel Oliver North,
- local officials said O.K. A film crew is set to invade the
- fragile nesting area this week, with a warning from Dick Zembal,
- biologist of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Says he: "If
- they damage it, they will hear from us." The implicit question:
- Is Ollie for the birds?
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- BAH TO BUSINESS. After being Secretary of State, George
- Shultz apparently views a return to the business world, where he
- was last with California's Bechtel Group, as a bit of a bore.
- Washington rumors suggest he may become head of the World Bank.
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- CHEAPER CHIC. Remember Nancy Reagan's $22,000 Galanos gowns,
- some of them borrowed? For the Bush crowd, the hot designer is
- Victor Costa, a Texan whose creations are a smash, though they
- do not sell for more than $800. The Bushes' daughter and
- daughters-in-law and Marilyn Quayle have bought his offerings
- for the Inaugural gala. Barbara Bush will be wearing an Arnold
- Scaasi design, though the color and cut remain a secret.
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