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...BLACK, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple. This time, Interior Secretary James G. Watt hit the jackpot. This tasteless description of the composition of a newly appointed coal-lease commission brought Watt closer to being ousted from the White House than ever before...
...succeeded, with a few words, in foiling the President's recent efforts to improve the Administration's image among women and minorities. The gaffe has prompted a flurry of vitriolic criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike, culminating in the proposal of a Senate Resolution urging the President to request Watt to resign...
...Interior Secretary James Watt has been trying to sell frights to mine on federally controlled land. Environmentalists and some Western Governors and Democrats contend he will spur the mining of coal that the nation does not now need, at giveaway prices. On Aug. 3, a House committee voted to order Watt not to hold a sale of mining rights scheduled for last week. Under federal law, its vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option...
...settled by the federal courts. Meanwhile, the Interior Secretary's determination to plunge ahead with the coal-lease sales program is raising a political storm; in the West, the disposition of the enormous amounts of coal that lie under federal land is an emotional issue. Ironically, though, when Watt last week put up for sale the rights to mine land containing 543 million tons of coal, primarily in North Dakota, he received bids covering only 115 million tons...
...think the Harvard field hockey squad would be as excited about a loss as James Watt would be about a Beach Boys concert...