NEWSMAKERS

* She’ll just say no: Joan Quigley, the San Francisco astrologer who advised Nancy Reagan on political matters, says she’s finished doing horoscopes for the Reagans. “If Nancy Reagan were to call me, I’d say, ‘Hello, Nancy,’ but if she asked me to do her horoscope again I’d certainly refuse,” she says in a videotaped interview promoting her coming book. She’s irked that there aren’t “qualifying tests” for astrologers: “I deserve to be taken seriously. I’m a technical, political astrologer.”

* Fair pay?: Detroit Mayor Coleman Young received a pay raise that ties him with the mayor of New York City as the nation’s highest-paid municipal chief. A city commission recommended a 3.7% raise for Young, boosting his salary from $125,350 to $130,000. It takes effect in 30 days unless rejected by the City Council.

* Sex and lies: Samoan women lied about their sex lives to pioneering U.S. anthropologist Margaret Mead, an Australian professor claimed Tuesday. Fa’apua Fa’amu, a key informant for Mead’s 1928 work, “Coming of Age in Samoa,” was joking when she said she and other girls sneaked out for nightly sex with young men. “She failed to realize that we were just joking and must have been taken in by our pretenses,” says the woman in a December magazine article by Derek Freeman of the Australian National University. He says the interview proves that Mead’s account of adolescent free love in 1920s Samoa was mistaken.

* Surgery planned: Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady, who has been having serious arthritis problems, will undergo elective surgery next month to replace his right hip. Deputy Secretary John Robson is to serve as acting secretary during Brady’s convalescence.