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...group: "Not only is Ruckelshaus the best choice anyone could hope for from this Administration, he would be an excellent choice in any Administration." Earlier in the week the Senate had echoed those sentiments in approving the nominee by a vote of 97 to 0. Quipped Republican Senator Robert Stafford from Vermont: "I only hope that hereafter Mr. Ruckelshaus can live up to his advance billing...
Congress was in full cry after Burford's scalp, and the war whoops were not coming just from the political opposition. House G.O.P. Leader Robert Michel and Senator Robert Stafford, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called for her ouster. Other Republicans wrote to Reagan urging that Burford be dumped in favor of a politically independent scientist. By week's end White House aides were busy drawing up a list of eligible replacements, and the hints had become broadsides. Reagan's aides had reached the conclusion that Burford was a political liability...
...grilling at the hands of the Senate Environment Committee, before which she voluntarily appeared after failing to respond to subpoenas from two House subcommittees that had been investigating the Superfund. If she had hoped to receive more sympathetic treatment from the Republican-controlled body, she miscalculated. Republican Senator Robert Stafford told Lavelle sternly that she had "created the impression that your agency may be in bed with polluters." Fellow Republican Senator John Chafee complained that she had been "extremely insensitive" about the appearance of impropriety in her frequent lunches and dinners with chemical-industry officials. Lavelle argued that...
...lying is wrong. Most children cannot satisfy those requirements before turning seven, but there are a growing number of exceptions. An increase in child abuse prosecutions is one reason for the trend. Another is the accelerated rate of maturity among the young. Says Washington State Supreme Court Justice Charles Stafford: "It's not just high school students who are more sophisticated; it goes all the way down to grade school...
John Paul showed his support for the war-weary Christians of Lebanon by giving them a Cardinal, Antoine Pierre Khoraiche, 75, Patriarch of the Maronite Rite. Thailand and the Ivory Coast got their first Cardinals, and Oceania was represented by New Zealand's Thomas Stafford Williams. If the Pope chose a progressive archbishop in Bernardin, he also picked a conservative: Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, 47, of Medellin, Colombia, is president of the bishops' conference in Latin America and an outspoken foe of priests who have become active in leftist politics...