Word: subpoenaed
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...Only hours before the President hailed "a new beginning" for the agency, the House of Representatives voted, 413 to 0, to hold former EPA Official Rita Lavelle (head of the hazardous-waste program until she was fired in February) in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena to testify before a House subcommittee. Meanwhile, the Justice Department was reported to be considering a grand jury investigation into allegations that Lavelle and former EPA General Counsel Robert Perry committed perjury in their testimony before Congress. Former Administrator Anne Burford, who was forced to resign in March, has been...
Relations between the two had been strained before Friday's meeting. The city took ECA to court when the company's executives failed to answer a rarely used council subpoena and had threatened to rezone the company's building to allow only low and moderate-income housing in it. The restriction would have made it difficult for ECA to sell the building by limiting the number of potential buyers...
Senator John Tower of Texas, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, also wanted to keep the controversial analyst under wraps. But Grassley persuaded his fellow Senators to schedule a hearing; they also threatened to subpoena Spinney if the Pentagon refused to let him appear. Tower tried to downplay the appearance by setting it for late Friday afternoon. He also wanted to hold it in a small committee room and ban television cameras. That way he hoped to confine daily press coverage to the lightly read Saturday newspapers. But pressure from other Senators forced Tower to move the session into...
...that during her stewardship, the EPA has been transformed into the "industry protection agency." Morale among employees has sunk so low that the EPA is the most leak-prone bureaucracy in town. "It's not easy to run an agency when the whole work force is either under subpoena or at the Xerox machine," a chagrined Gorsuch told TIME. Known to some subordinates as the "Ice Queen" for her cool demeanor and hard-line approach, Gorsuch has a simple motto: "Do more with less...
DIED. Leon Jaworski, 77, courteous, square-jawed Texas lawyer who gained national fame and a place in constitutional history when, as Watergate special prosecutor, he convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that even the President was bound to submit to a subpoena for White House tapes, the eventual release of which led to Richard Nixon's resignation; of an apparent heart attack; near Wimberley, Texas. The son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, Jaworski built a large and flourishing practice in booming Houston between assignments for the Government, which ranged from serving as a prosecutor in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials...