WHO'S WHO
WHO’S WHO Those who think the Reagan administration's lax enforcement of antitrust laws was a major factor in the merger mania of the 1980s welcome the news from a recent conference at Harvard...
...Director General of the Foreign Service—Edward Joseph Perkins...
...His nomination, although in trouble, was still pending at the time we went to press...
...What you don't know is the fullness of that obsession...
...But according to the Washington Times, which has excellent sources in the conservative movement, right-wing objections have caused Bush to abandon the Butler nomination...
...Chairman, Civil Rights Commission—William B. Allen...
...WHO’S WHO Those who think the Reagan administration's lax enforcement of antitrust laws was a major factor in the merger mania of the 1980s welcome the news from a recent conference at Harvard Law School where James Rill, the assistant attorney general who heads the antitrust division, and Janet Steiner, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, announced that the Bush administration would toughen enforcement of antitrust laws...
...State: Ambassador to Israel—William Andreas Brown...
...Energy: Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Energy Emergencies—John J. Easton...
...You don't understand," the source added, "how much time they spend making sure Bush's secrets stay secret and then doing a who-shot-John when they don't...
...An important quote in terms of understanding the Bush White House got buried in the The Washington Post...
...Agencies and Commissions: Director, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—Martha 0. Hesse...
...Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy—J...
...t think you know how obsessed George Bush is about leaks...
...John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, says, "The only benefit of moving Mr...
...Justice: Assistant Attorney General—Stuart M. Gerson...
...Michael Davis...
...George Bush was planning to name Butler to head the Legal Services Corporation...
...Outs—Transportation: Director National Highway Traffic Safety Administration—Diane K. Steed...
...If you watched the Watergate impeachment deliberations of the House Judiciary Committee you will recall Caldwell Butler, then a congressman from Virginia, as one of the more impressive participants...
...Health and Human Services: Surgeon General—Antonia C. Novello...
...Martha 0. Hesse, the departing chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which regulates such domestic matters as natural gas pipeline fees, spent $27,216.14 in government funds to travel to such places as Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong, according to the Legal Times...
...Ambassador to Spain—Joseph Zappala...
...To last month's list of environmental good and bad guys at the Department of the Interior...
...Among the Bush nominations that encountered resistance in the Senate were those of James Cason to assistant secretary of Agriculture for forest and soil conservation and of Victor Stello to head the Energy Department's nuclear weapons program...
...Stello to the Department of Energy is ridding NRC of Mr...
...Education: Assistant Secretary for Post Secondary Education—Leonard L. Haynes...
...Describing Cason's tenure in James Watt's Interior Department, a Senate staff member says, "Whenever there was a choice between private interests and the public interest, he came down on the side of private interests...
...His nomination was rejected in mid-November...
...It was from a source identified as "a Republican familiar with the workings of the Reagan and Bush administrations," who said: "A lot of the way the White House operates is based on the leaks thing...
...Stello...
...It's right up there as one of his core values...
...Ins—Agriculture: Assistant Secretary for Economics— Bruce L. Gardner...
...Agencies and Commissions: Deputy Director, Peace Corps—Barbara Zortman...
...You know, service, religion, leaks...
...General Counsel— Stephen A. Wakefield...
...As director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Stello is said to have been excessively permissive toward nuclear plant safety violations, keeping secret, for example, allegations of drug use and safety problems at an upstate New York nuclear facility...
...John Turner, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to the white hats, and Cy Jameson, director of the Bureau of Land Management, and James B. Ridenour, director of the National Park Service, to the blacks...
Vol. 21 • December 1989 • No. 11
