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Bumptious Interior Secretary James Watt found himself at the center of a new embroilment last week. The cause of the row: Watt's alleged mismanagement of the Federal Government's coal-leasing program, which, according to a House Appropriations Committee report, permitted the energy industry to buy coal-leasing rights at "fire sale" prices and reap "windfall profits" at taxpayers' expense...
Wherever one looks on Pennsylvania Avenue, sharp corners are being rounded, excesses are being contained. When he came into office, Reagan was not very interested in arms control. Preachers, professors and pundits have forced his attention. James Watt insulted the Beach Boys and was squelched by Nancy Reagan. When it appeared the President was forgetting about those suffocating $200 billion deficits, a memo from Budgetman David Stockman was leaked pleading for action lest the red ink extend...
...most constructive input came from two candidates who clarified once and for all that they will not do so. City Councilor Frederick C. Langone, a crusty old codger who specializes in down-home wisdom and speaks to everybody as if he were their grandfather, clinched the James Watt Hole-in-the-Foot award by telling one of the students in the audience to "come back to me after you've survived a rape," to discuss women's issues. And Eloise Linger, the candidate for the Socialist Workers Party, proved exactly why socialists don't run cities by discussing El Salvador...
...Democrats would do better to unleash all their venom on Reagan's henchmen, many of whom are grossly unqualified and do not share the President's vencer of personal unassailability. James G. Watt is the leading example: Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Margaret Heckler are others And it's about time someone went to town on National Security Advisor William Clark, a foreign affairs novice who, according to Newsweek, "is commonly judged a 'disaster...
...pickin' up bad vibrations./ Watt's givin' me palpitations./ Gee whillikers, what a sensation." Such adulterated lyrics, until last week, would have meant little to Interior Secretary James Watt, 43, which, of course, was the problem. Watt, it seems, is a dim bulb when it comes to rock music. Otherwise why would he have tried to ban the wholesome harmonies of the Beach Boys from the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario...