Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cover-ups and long delays. Congress has become increasingly unhappy with the glacial pace with which first the DOE and now the Justice Department have pursued their parallel investigations into the new-for-old and the daisy-chain swindles. Investigators for the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power are looking into the possibility that there might have been outright collusion between some of the probers and the probed, even though oilmen argue that the delays were probably caused by DOE understaffing and inefficiency. Says Michael Barrett, a subcommittee counsel: "Some of these cases were ready to go two years...
After nine phone calls, MacArthur located in the labyrinth of the Department of Energy (DOE) a harassed man with, he swore, 3,999 other dams to worry about. He informed MacArthur that he might have become eligible for a loan by conducting something called a feasibility study, if only the wall had collapsed two months before. Now-too bad-the deadline for feasibility studies had passed...
EXPECTING. Twiggy, 28, London's wispy, doe-eyed model turned singer, and Michael Witney, her actor husband; their first child; in November. Twiggy, who is 5 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 91 lbs. at the height of her career, has now ballooned to 112 lbs., and is embarking on a diet to stave off pregnancy pounds. She faces childbirth philosophically: "It's all a bit scary in a way because it's the first one. But then people have them in forests and rice fields, don't they? And they all seem to manage...
...worse problem is finding qualified people to fill DOE posts at the high level of Assistant Secretary. Now three such positions remain vacant, and few people seem willing to undergo the months of congressional scrutiny and cross-examination that have become standard for anybody willing to take a job in a policymaking area as contentious as energy. Example: Lynn Coleman, once a partner in John Connally's Houston law firm, which has oil industry clients, waited eight months until the suspicious, supercautious Senate finally approved his nomination as DOE general counsel. Schlesinger has not yet submitted the names...
Schlesinger has temporarily filled the jobs with stand-ins dragooned from other DOE duties, but this has raised legal snarls. The General Accounting Office ruled that four acting chiefs (general counsel, inspector general and two Assistant Secretaries) had not been confirmed by the Senate and therefore had no legal authority in their jobs. Though the Justice Department disputed the opinion, the issue is causing uncertainty about even the most routine regulatory action by DOE...