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...just for his fresh Middle East expertise. By coincidence, he had been named six days earlier to replace William Clark as Reagan's National Security Adviser, potentially the second most powerful job in the White House. Just the week the President's dispatch of Clark to the Interior Department had utterly rattled Washington. In naming McFarlane to be his principal in-house foreign policy adviser, however, the President followed a predictable course. Standing by as Reagan sang his praises ("a treasure of experience and talent"), McFarlane then stepped toward the TV lights to solicit reporters' questions, some...
...take place. National Security Adviser William Clark said nothing about it when they met at the White House, and it was only because she had a bad bronchial infection that she canceled her return to Latin America. She did not hear about her trusted colleague's nomination as Interior Secretary until an aide called the following...
Work on the exterior will begin as early as next summer, Simpson said, and interior reconstruction should occur during the summer of 1985, so that it does not interfere with classes...
Watt's policies broke dramatically with those Interior had pursued under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. He veered hard to the right, away from unalloyed concern for environmental preservation, and toward commercial use of the Government's vast land holdings. Remarkably, he wrought deep changes mainly without changing laws; his tools were budgetary finesse, regulatory manipulation and personnel shifts. "He was a consummate bureaucrat," says National Wildlife Federation Executive Lynn Greenwalt, an erstwhile Watt colleague at Interior. "He knew how to make a big, sprawling agency do what he wanted." Watt's trouble was that he tended...
DIED. Wayne Aspinall, 87, crusty Democratic Congressman from Colorado who during twelve terms (1949-72) fought for Western development, dominating the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee for 14 years; of prostate cancer; in Palisade, Colo. Although instrumental in the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act and the 1965 Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, he drew fire from environmentalists for his multiple-use policies that kept open public lands for mining, grazing, timbering and oil exploration...