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...company so far has replaced about 3 million tires, or roughly 40% of those estimated to be still in use, and NHTSA Director Joan Claybrook has charged that it is moving too slowly. Says Frank Berndt, the agency's chief counsel: "The recall has been very disappointing...
...battles have ended in victory. She tried and failed to persuade her boss, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, to make air bags mandatory in all new cars beginning in 1981 but had to settle for a 1982 to 1984 deadline. Claybrook later lost out even more embarrassingly in her attempt to tighten braking standards for tractor-trailers. She was testifying before a congressional committee on her opinion even as Adams was disagreeing with her at a press conference...
Automen do not fault Claybrook's intelligence, but they complain that her agency shoots from the hip and uses the media to publicize charges that are not retracted with the same fanfare when proved incorrect. They criticize NHTSA for yielding to pressure groups, for failing to measure costs against benefits, and for lacking enough competent staffers. Undaunted, Claybrook aims next to get the automakers to improve seat belts and to scrap their spearlike hood ornaments, which she considers dangerous...
Carol Foreman also thrives on controversy and, like Claybrook, works twelve hours a day. She is aggressive and serious, as could be expected of a woman who once lobbied for Planned Parenthood while in a visibly advanced stage of pregnancy. The mother of two children, Foreman is married to a vice president of the retail clerks union. She looks more like an editor of a fashion magazine than a tough Government regulator, and she strikes visitors as calm and relaxed. Soft, gentle music plays in her office because, she says, "it calms the wild beasts who are in here...
Foreman laughs off the criticism and is happy that she enjoys the confidence of Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland as well as of her friend Joan Claybrook. On Foreman's 40th birthday Claybrook gave her a gift: a spiky cactus plant. It was festooned like a Christmas tree, with candy, chewing gum and junk food that Foreman had just proposed banning from sale during school lunch hours. Today only a few of the trimmings remain on the tree. The rest, reports Foreman, have been eaten by her sugar-loving staff...