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Acting speedily for the first time in the entire Watergate affair, Nixon named a new interim acting FBI director just three hours after Gray's resignation was made public. Nixon's choice was William D. Ruckelshaus, 40, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. A tough-minded lawyer, liberal Republican and a former Assistant Attorney General, he is known to be appalled at the continuing revelations of White House involvement in the Watergate coverup. He does not expect to serve more than two months, said Ruckelshaus, and he does not want to be considered as a permanent replacement...
...search committee will make its recommendation to Watson, who will then make the final selection. Initially, Watson said that Harvard might hire an interim coach, but over the last two weeks it has become clear that the search committee is looking for a permanent head coach...
Still, the message does highlight some key energy problems, and the Administration is confident that it is a major step in the right direction. In fact Shultz thinks of it as an interim report, implying that it will be followed with later Executive actions. Others in Washington seemed more than willing to help. At week's end Congress was preparing several bills of its own to deal with the growing energy crisis...
...quadriphonic howls of protest indicated that Ruckelshaus had passed one test of an impartial compromise: he outraged both sides about equally. Ralph Nader, Detroit's perennial fifth wheel,* charged that the EPA decision amounted to "capitulation to the domestic auto industry, pure and simple." Automen insisted that the interim standards are still too stiff. General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg pronounced himself "dismayed"; Henry Ford II pledged to "examine the avenues of administrative, legislative and legal recourse open to us" to get both the interim and final standards softened. The contrasting denunciations unintentionally symbolized what Ruckelshaus himself called "the ambivalence...
Clearly, Ruckelshaus bought only part of that argument. His interim standards for California will indeed necessitate a catalyst on every new 1975-model car sold in that state, but the requirements will be stiffened from present levels in the rest of the country too. By 1975, autos outside California may emit only 1.5 grams of hydrocarbons and 15 grams of carbon monoxide for each mile traveled. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that, compared with current pollution levels, these standards will take California two-thirds of the way, and the rest of the country halfway, toward meeting the requirements originally laid...