Tricky Dicky under attack

DISGRACED former US president Richard Nixon may have been rehabilitated back home, but here the Tricky Dicky label still sticks fast.

Mr Nixon - or ''Richard Crawley'' as he booked himself in at the Mandarin Oriental - left Hongkong yesterday after arriving from China (where over the years he must have picked up some useful tips on political rehabilitation) and staying just long enoughto take delivery of some newly tailored suits from you know who and dine at the Jumbo Restaurant.

But as the villain of Watergate strode smartly through the lobby, an American nearby was heard to mutter: ''What the [expletive deleted] is that [expletive deleted] Nixon doing here?'' Exactly!