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...last week, there is a new damned man. Russell E. Train, 53, who has been chairman of the President's advisory Council on Environmental Quality for the past three years, succeeds (the Senate permitting) William Ruckelshaus, who left the EPA three months ago to serve as acting director of the FBI. Ruckelshaus, who was named Deputy Attorney General last week, earned himself the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his repeated jousting with Detroit, and he leaves to Train a feisty, independent agency. Train has the credentials to keep it that way. A Columbia Law School graduate, former minority counsel...
Much of the excitement and spirit of the Environmental Protection Agency diminished when-again because of Watergate-William Ruckelshaus was drafted temporarily to run the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Since the President has now appointed Kansas City Police Chief Clarence M. Kelley permanent FBI director, Ruckelshaus' future is uncertain. His able stand-in at EPA, Robert Fri, now insists he will be returning to private life in a few weeks...
Both the National Academy of Sciences and former Environmental Protection Administrator William Ruckelshaus recently acclaimed the new engine as an important weapon against automotive pollution. Although Detroit automakers have argued that the engine is not yet suitable for standard-size cars, they could well install it in smaller models. Last week General Motors President Edward Cole revealed that GM had expressed interest in ordering as many as 400,000 stratified-charge engines from Honda for the 1975 model year; Honda replied that it had neither "the interest nor capacity" to provide them. GM has now announced an "urgent" program that...
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION . Director: William Ruckelshaus. Employees: 19,857 (including 8,700 agents). Budget: $336,300,000. Number of field offices: 59. Established in 1908 as investigative arm of the Justice Department, the closest U.S. equivalent to a national police force. FBI has jurisdiction over wide range of crimes from assassination of a President to bank robbery, kidnaping and transportation of stolen cars. Since 1936, has had jurisdiction over espionage and sabotage within the U.S. J. Edgar Hoover, director from 1924 until his death last year, expanded FBI authority to in vestigate Communists, Ku Klux Klansmen, radical students...
...Ruckelshaus may be a fine, independent fellow," said a high FBI man, "but he's only holding the job until the President picks a permanent director. After our bitter experience with Gray, any appointee from outside the bureau will have trouble winning the acceptance of the agents...