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...Simon) David Freeman is the most controversial energy expert in the Federal Government, and one of the mightiest. Last week President Carter, who admires Freeman's populist approach, appointed him to the most respected operating position Washington has to offer in energy: chairmanship of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest and only federally owned utility (1977 sales: $1.96 billion...
...fighting for more carriers and a bigger role in defense strategy. It has also been plagued by poor management as various shipbuilding programs have incurred delays and huge cost overruns. As for the Army, Chief of Staff Bernard Rogers made it clear that he did not want the J.C.S. chairmanship...
Freeze Executive Pay. Federal Reserve Chief G. William Miller, who took a cut from $400,000 to $57,500 when he left the chairmanship of Textron, recommends that "top business executives demonstrate their leadership in the fight by holding down their own compensation." A one-year moratorium on raises by people earning, say, $100,000 or more would not make much economic difference, but it might be worth something symbolically...
...trying to smear him as antiSemitic. Retorts Rabbi Alexander Schindler. chairman of the Conference of Presidents: "That's an outrageous overreaction on his part. Nobody called him anti-Semitic or implied that. Disagreement is not racist." His conference colleagues back Schindler: last week they voted to extend his chairmanship indefinitely, as a way of protesting White House pressure on him for airing Jewish doubts about Carter's policies...
...current incarnation of this well-intentioned but warped effort was sponsored by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and McLellan, who died last year. Many observers contend that Kennedy co-sponsored the bill, an obvious attempt at compromise, despite its repressive sections in a self-interested maneuver for the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately, Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), the long-time chairman of that committee, decided not to retire, leaving Kennedy in the lurch with a bill he will have to see through to the bitter end. Kennedy has apparently pushed the bill through the Senate...