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...handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade Representative. The new selections: Jeane Kirkpatrick, professor of government at Georgetown University, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Denver Lawyer James Watt, an advocate of oil and gas development of wilderness lands, as Secretary of the Interior; Samuel Pierce, a black attorney and labor mediator hi New York, as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Block, Illinois director of agriculture, as Secretary of Agriculture; and former South Carolina Governor James Edwards as Secretary of Energy. In addition, Reagan named Richard Allen to head the National Security Council...
...bringing an interesting dimension to the department," said Interior Secretary-designate James G. Watt...
...understatement. Environmentalists could scarcely have been more shocked if Reagan had chosen Ebenezer Scrooge to head Interior. "Like hiring a fox to guard the chickens!" protested Bernard Ewell, president of the Colorado Open Space Council. Said Carolyn Johnson, an official of the Public Lands Institute, a privately funded watchdog group: "Watt may be the first person ever to unite 176 separate Indian tribes on a single issue: opposition...
...courtroom. Son of a lawyer in Lusk, Wyo., who represented ranchers and farmers, Watt married Leilani Bomgardner while still a student at the University of Wyoming (J.D. '62). He worked as a legislative aide to former Republican Senator Milward Simpson, then became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior and later, commissioner of the Federal Power Commission. For the past three years he has been president of Denver's Mountain States Legal Foundation, a public-interest firm of ten lawyers that was formed in 1977 by Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewer and backer of archconservative causes...
Mountain States' current suits include one that would prevent the Jicarilla Apaches, who like other tribes are overseen by the Department of Interior, from levying taxes on natural gas piped out of their reservation in northern New Mexico. In another case, Watt's law firm in October persuaded a federal district court in Cheyenne, Wyo., to rule that the Departments of Interior and Agriculture could not refuse to consider applications for exploratory oil-and gas-drilling leases on federal land that is being considered for reclassification as wilderness...