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Lobbyists for the nuclear industry said yesterday Reagan will probably choose a Republican with a background in industry or engineering for the post. Those mentioned include Daniel Lufkin, a former Connecticut state official and Kenneth Davis of the Bechtel Corporation...
Room 13's difficulties are not unique. Peer counseling services at other schools seem to have problems similar to those of Room 13. According to Thomas Bechtel, dean of student counseling at Brown, the services of Student-to-Student, Brown's version of Room 13, "aren't that heavily utilized" because of the misconception that "You've got to be pretty lonely" to use them. T. L. Hill, a junior at Brown and co-coordinator of Student-to-Student, adds that like Room 13, his program has a problem reaching upperclassmen, especially sophomores and juniors, who, unlike freshman and seniors...
Ronald Reagan's economic brain trust, and presumably the leading officials in a Reagan Administration, are mostly strong conservatives who previously served in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. These include George Shultz, former Treasury Secretary and now vice chairman of Bechtel Corp.; Alan Greenspan, Ford's top economic aide and currently a private New York consultant; and Charls Walker, onetime Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and a powerful Washington lobbyist. Anderson's economic advisers are relative unknowns. His main aide is Robert Walker, a legislative assistant on his congressional staff...
Remembering his 1972-74 stint as Secretary of the Treasury, George Shultz, now vice chairman of the Bechtel Corp. and one of Ronald Reagan's economic advisers, emphasizes that much of the "abrasive interface" between Government and private enterprise results from differences in thought processes. "When a problem comes up, economic thinking says, 'What is the efficient way to solve it?' " writes Shultz. "Political thinking says, 'What is the equitable solution?' " In the search for equity, economic considerations are too often overwhelmed by special pleading by pressure groups and naive, overzealous Government officials...
Named for Mary Harris Jones, a turn-of-the-century labor organizer, Mother Jones pursues corporate miscreants with a vigor that would have made her proud. It has linked Bechtel Corp. with the CIA (a charge denied by the company), exposed the dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive device, and in 1977 was the first publication to allege that Ford chose not to redesign a faulty fuel system in its 1971-76 Pintos. Just four years old, Mother Jones won its third National Magazine Award in April for a story about how products banned in the U.S. as unsafe...