Word: interiorized
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Romero was not the only official to be surprised. Secretary of the Interior Thomas Kleppe, whose department is responsible for drafting statehood legislation, learned of the proposal the night before it was released. Senate leaders were notified a few minutes before the announcement, but House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. was not. "The whole thing is crazy," said an aide to the Senate Interior Committee, which monitors Puerto Rican affairs. Added a House Territorial Subcommittee staffer: "The key is for Puerto Rico to show some interest in becoming a state, and it hasn...
Although the December 5th rally came off without any incidents of violence, the potential for it was in the air. The night before, Giscard's Minister of the Interior had had police evacuate strikers from the offices of a city newspaper--Le Parisien Libere. A member of Chirac's entourage broke the news forcefully to the crowd, expecting them to realize that the move would cause other papers to strike in sympathy and thus deprive the rally of press coverage. He awaited boos and hisses. But the crowd cheered wildly, excited at the news that police had begun to treat...
...Wing of the White House as an assistant to the President. Eventually, Carter intends to put him into the Cabinet as Secretary of a new Energy Department that would consolidate the functions of the Federal Energy Administration, the Energy Research and Development Agency and some now filled by the Interior Department. Congress must approve the new department, however, and the House may resist attempts to truncate Interior...
...nation's vastly increased offshore area. Last April, the U.S. proclaimed a 200-mile limit in line with the intentions of the European Community and Canada. Differences remain to be ironed out with Russian and Japanese fishermen, who traditionally have prowled just beyond the old twelve-mile boundary. Interior will also be called on to regulate the rush of corporations to conduct possibly polluting searches for oil and minerals...
...violence on referendum day. Suárez canceled a last-minute campaign trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the terrorists. Suárez's Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa said that the government could not accept "blackmail and coercion" and had tried every channel of "worthy and humanitarian" solution to the kidnaping. If Oriol is killed. Villa vowed, his kidnapers will be hunted down...