* No Splash: Ashley Montana looks sultry...
* No Splash: Ashley Montana looks sultry on the front of this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, but she might be pouting because the magazine has curbed publicity for the issue because of the Gulf War. There will be no video news release or big push for TV interviews. SI’s Roger Jackson said: “It would be inappropriate to actively solicit publicity.”
* Close to Home: A nephew of President Bush who hopes to be a medic in the Mideast said the risk he faces would not affect his uncle’s feelings about the Gulf War. College student Jonathan J. Bush Jr., 21, said in New Haven, Conn., that the President already has “utmost regard” for American lives, “and I don’t think because I’m one of those troops it will change his logic” about the war.
* Bygones: When Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy flew into the nation’s capital to tape a television show Tuesday, he got a surprise. In his room at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Maryland was a gift bottle of wine from Paul Leeper, the hotel’s security chief. Leeper arrested Liddy in 1972 in connection with the Watergate break-in. The two men reportedly are now friends.
* Chapter 2: The 1963 marriage of U.S. debutante Hope Cooke and the last king of Sikkim was a “storybook” event, and now their daughter, Princess Hope Leezum Namgyal, is writing a new chapter. She will wed Thomas Gwyn Reich Jr., 34, a foreign-service officer. The princess, 22, is a Georgetown University graduate, as is her fiance, who until recently was the head officer for Burmese affairs at the State Department. The couple are to marry in Washington, D.C., July 13 and will live in Japan, where Reich is to be posted.