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...House package becomes law, the Social Security system will be buoyed by revenue increases and spending cuts totaling $165.3 billion from 1983 to 1989. The legislation now moves for approval to the Senate, where Colorado Republican William Armstrong has promised stiff opposition to the proposed tax hikes and levies on benefits...
...employee morale at the battered EPA. Burford's mentor in the Administration, Interior Secretary James Watt, advised her that her support was eroding and that she should consider quitting. Finally, shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, she received a call from Reagan Friend Joseph Coors, a Colorado brewery mogul, who had been her faithful booster. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese had asked Coors to break the news. Gently, Coors told Burford that the President, though with great reluctance, would accept her resignation. She immediately called Meese and said she wanted to meet with Reagan that afternoon...
Burford, known by colleagues as the Ice Queen and once described in her home state of Colorado as so tough "she could kick a bear to death with her bare feet," succumbed with quiet dignity. Her celebrated feistiness had faded under the emotional strain of seeing her agency tarred by allegations ranging from perjury and conflict of interest by her top aides, to mismanagement and political favoritism. She also faced a congressional contempt citation for invoking, on Reagan's orders, Executive privilege to withhold subpoenaed EPA documents from House subcommittees. "She had come apart at the seams personally...
...South voted for Gold water, and the Nixon and Reagan landslides of 1972 and 1980.) So three Southern Presidential candidates in a wide field should come as no surprise to the Democrats. Further, in this election of 1984, other Democratic candidates hail from such interesting, traditionally Republican places as Colorado and California...
MARRIED. Anne M. Gorsuch, 40, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency; and Robert F. Burford, 60, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C. They met in 1977 when both were in the Colorado state legislature...