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Curran will not be joining the main Justice Department investigation of possible violations of the banking laws by Lance. Now 18 months old, this probe reportedly is ready to produce indictments against the man that Carter made director of the Office of Management and Budget. However, Curran will be able to investigate Lance's role in the peanut loans...
Helped by the voter backlash against professional politicians, newcomers to politics won gubernatorial elections in several states last year. Among them were two Democrats: Massachusetts' Ed King, a former professional football lineman and director of the state port authority, and Alabama's Fob James, a millionaire manufacturer of sporting goods. Both charged into office in January promising business-like administrations and a fresh approach to solving problems. Since they have taken office, however, the two have met with astonishingly different results: King is foundering badly, while James is off to a successful start...
...conservative King also fired Christina Crowe, deputy director of social services for the state welfare department, for criticizing his freeze on hiring social workers. He canceled two scheduled 6% cost-of-living increases for welfare recipients, most of whom are children, and then asked private charities to help make up the difference. When welfare mothers gathered on Beacon Hill to protest, King refused to meet with them. He ordered a limit on the number of indigent elderly persons who can be accepted by state-funded nursing homes, producing howls of protest. Last week King backed down, saying the limit...
Instead of political hangers-on, James has appointed experts to run state agencies. He chose a 34-year-old investment whiz as state finance director and a 49-year-old systems analyst as conservation commissioner. James ordered staffers to stop accepting gifts of liquor or football tickets for their services, limited his top aides' salaries to $36,000 ($1,500 less than the legal maximum) and instructed them to work on some state holidays. His personal staff is young and dedicated, and was quickly nicknamed the James Gang...
...food service director preferred culinary to political art, however, and ordered him to hold the garnishes. When Bates responded by writing HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARX in whipped cream on a cake, he was fired. He has appealed his ouster, and the issue is now before the college president. The wilted salads have mushroomed, he says, into a principle: "Where you have no employer-employee structure to deal with firings, there's no possibility of any community response." Or, more simply, they won't lettuce have...