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...SPARE TIME: last week, when he wasn't laying waste to the American environment, our Secretary of the Interior tried his hand at a new activity and went out for a little anesthetic strip mining...
...Disc jockeys across the country inveighed against Watt-one called him "the administration's chief nerd." The Beach Boys, the most prominent group to play at the Fourth of July concert in past years, issued a statement that declared. "After Watt's remarks, we believe the Department of the Interior has attracted the wrong element...
...party. They were afraid that he might not prove a team player, recalling that, as Deputy Attorney General under President Nixon, he resigned rather than fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the famed Saturday Night Massacre of October 1973. Two weeks ago, Presidential Adviser Craig Fuller telephoned Interior Department Head James Watt to get a conservative reading. Watt was enthusiastic about Ruckelshaus and said that in private conversations he had found him sympathetic to the Administration's environmental policy and minimalist approach to regulation. Later that day Watt telephoned Ruckelshaus to administer what an aide termed a "philosophical...
...solid Greek chorus subtly pressuring a recalcitrant President Reagan to let go his besieged Environmental Protection Agency chief. They convinced him that she was a roadblock to settling the dispute with Congress and restoring credibility and 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...
...eight won reelection, but five were defeated outright in the first round. Although the losers do not automatically forfeit their ministerial posts, they may be the first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors, who was running in the Paris suburb of Clichy, a safe Socialist seat for 50 years; and Premier Mauroy, who has controlled the northern industrial city of Lille since 1973. In Paris...