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...Watt sets aside land sales
...buildings and a scanty 4,600 acres of land worth $4.8 million. Even worse, it has proved a disaster politically, antagonizing conservationists and even some of the Administration's staunchest supporters. In a move to cut the plan's political cost, Department of the Interior Secretary James Watt said last week that land under Interior's control will no longer be sold as part of an asset-management program...
...While Watt was backpedaling, another official was also making readjustments for the Administration. Speaking at a breakfast meeting with reporters, William Ruckelshaus, appointed four months ago to head the scandal-rocked Environmental Protection Agency, admitted that former agency officials had "confused ends and means" in setting environmental policy. Without naming Predecessor Anne Burford, Ruckelshaus said that the previous regime had misunderstood the difference between economic and social regulation. The Government's decision to drop its controls of the trucking and airline industries had wide support, he said, "but the situation is much different when you're talking about...
...everything James Watt could have hoped for in a July 4th, and more. While the Interior Secretary watched from the roof of his offices a few hundred yards away, his celebrated choice for the capital's Independence Day concert, Wayne Newton, 41, hauled his sequined Las Vegas act out onto the Washington Mall. (One local radio station suggested that a two-drink minimum be imposed to make the entertainer feel more at home.) Doffing a headdress that had been presented to him earlier-Newton is part Indian-the singer milked the day's patriotic sentiment, kicking off with...
...puckish caller once asked Interior Secretary James Watt during a radio talk show whether his baldness was caused by acid rain. Watt laughed off the wisecrack, as well he might. In spite of rising concern in the Northeast and Canada, Administration spokesmen have repeatedly insisted that nothing could really be done about acid rain and the industry-produced sulfur emissions allegedly behind them until all the scientific facts were in. Suddenly last week, however, facts came raining down like a summer squall, in effect making further scientific debate on what mainly causes the problem all but irrelevant...