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...Environment. Offshore oil-tract leasing procedures and toxic-substance regulations could be overruled by House or Senate. Any federal sale of land parcels larger than 2,500 acres could be scotched. In 1981 Interior Secretary James Watt was stopped by a House committee from leasing mineral rights to 1.5 million acres of Montana wilderness...
...JAMES WATT won't read this book. Henry A. Kissinger '50 hasn't talked about it in recent television interviews. But that hasn't kept the more than 5000 Kremlin on Charles summer denizens from devouring copies of Harvard Summer School 1983 sent to them over the last few weeks...
...would be quite easy, in weaving together a 12-month retrospective, to produce a mocking portrait of the sitting Administration. Its personnel problems have rivaled those of the Harding presidency, as successive agencies have been marked by incompetence or scandal. James Watt, Anne Burford and Kenneth Adelman have come to symbolize the abuse of power and the perversion of goals by those charged to pursue them Reagan's policy problems have also worsened. His depression-high unemployment and his record budget deficits contributed first to Republican losses in November's election, then to loyalty losses in Congress. The extent...
...gets critiqued; Watt attacked; a Commerce official probed
Interior's Wrong Designs The Interior Department, under feisty Ideologue James Watt, always seems to be in trouble with Congress. On Monday in Lynchburg, Va., Secretary of the Interior Watt addressed the graduating class at Liberty Baptist College, founded by the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell. Said Watt: "We have seen government used by the enemies of liberty and freedom here in America, God's chosen place." But back in Washington, critics charged that Watt's Interior Department was proving all too charitable, in a most unsaintly way, to private industry...