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ROUND 2. Last February the White House named Charles DiBona, 41, to coordinate energy planning. DiBona, a former Navy officer and systems analyst, combines a staunch belief in unregulated free enterprise with a lack of experience in the energy field. Under DiBona, a final draft of the message was produced, and Nixon delivered it six weeks later. It quite properly called for scrapping antiquated oil-import quotas but otherwise was distressingly bland...
...charges of indecisiveness. Still, negotiating skills will surely prove useful in balancing the different requirements of energy industries, foreign suppliers and the public. In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm last week, Love was quick to admit that 'Tm no energy expert." He will depend on Charles DiBona, the White House's energy specialist, who will be his chief assistant. Some of Love's other comments...
...Hershey, 76, as director and aging symbol of the Selective Service System. The White House has also held out hope that the draft might be abolished altogether, but that notion is not highly popular on Capitol Hill. The President's choice to succeed Hershey, Pentagon Consultant Charles DiBona, 37, was scuttled by Senators who did not approve of his advocacy of a volunteer Army. Nevertheless, the Administration last week released a presidential commission's report urging that such a volunteer system be created within 16 months...
...center's more recent studies concerned a plan for abolishing the draft altogether in favor of an all-volunteer Army. Nixon hopes to accomplish this ultimately, and DiBona could be a knowledgeable advocate of the plan against the expected Congressional opposition...
...DiBona, youthful and vigorous at 37, seems better qualified than some of the earlier choices. A Naval Academy graduate (second in the class of 1956) and a former submarine officer, he was also a Rhodes scholar who studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. Later he became one of Robert McNamara's whiz kids and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander before he left the Navy in 1967 and joined the center...