Wish List: Philippines former first lady Imelda...

Wish List: Philippines former first lady Imelda Marcos on Tuesday made a holiday appeal to go home from exile in Hawaii. “You can be sure that with your former first lady, former mother of the country, when I come home, Christmas will not be for a day. I will make it Christmas every day,” she said in a statement sent to Philippines media. The government refused to allow the late President Ferdinand Marcos and his family to return from Hawaii, where they fled when he was ousted in 1986.

* Best Friend: The Wisconsin Humane Society will honor Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.) for helping a stray dog he spotted on a Milwaukee freeway Dec. 2. Aspin picked up the spaniel and unsuccessfully searched the surrounding neighborhood for its owner. He then cared for the dog until its owner responded to a newspaper advertisement appeal.

* Tables Turned: Advice columnist Dr. Ruth Westheimer has been discussing other people’s private lives for years. But now a little secret about Dr. Ruth herself is out: She doesn’t sleep in the same bed with her husband, Fred. The tidbit was revealed when the couple booked a Caribbean cruise, asking for separate beds. Dr. Ruth pooh-poohed the whole thing, saying it’s just that Fred snores too loudly.

* No Papering Over: The Ronald Reagan Library is nearing completion near Simi Valley with a target date of Feb. 6, the former President’s 80th birthday, but it looks as though his papers won’t be available for a number of years. Reagan’s White House papers are the property of the federal government, and the National Archives has five years to process them. Until Reagan, former Presidents owned their papers, except for Richard M. Nixon, whose documents were made government property by special legislation after the Watergate scandal.