Article: PERSONALITIES

Former national security adviser Bud McFarlane and Sen. Claiborne Pell aren't what anyone would term close friends or political allies, but when a neighbor is in trouble, even a U.S. senator knows how to be neighborly. On Sunday afternoon, a fire swept through McFarlane's Georgetown townhouse, causing an estimated $75,000 in damages.

Pell lives across the street from President Reagan's former aide, who pleaded guilty last year to four misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress in connection with the Iran-contra affair. The Rhode Island Democrat has invited McFarlane and his wife Jonda to stay at his home, where they are expected to be all week while their house is being ...

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