NAMES IN THE NEWS : Mrs. Bush on Health of First Dog

Barbara Bush said the listlessness of her dog Millie is due more to jealousy than illness.

“George is convinced she’s sick, but it really is because she’s jealous of her son,” a big, bounding dog who belongs to one of Bush’s sons and frequently visits the White House, Mrs. Bush said Monday during a visit to the village center 1 1/2 miles from the Bush family compound.

“It’s more in the mind than the body,” she said as local children petted the dog.

Later, Mrs. Bush chatted with reporters aboard Air Force One on the trip back to Washington.

Regarding the President’s suggestion the day before that he might invite Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to their Maine home, Mrs. Bush said her husband had not told her about it.

But, she added, “You know me. Anybody he asks--I’ll be nice to.”