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...that has shattered the once proud agency and deepened doubts in some quarters about the Reagan Administration's commitment to environmental protection. Last Monday, President Reagan tersely fired Rita Lavelle, the EPA official who oversaw hazardous waste programs, after she refused to resign at Gorsuch's request. Lavelle's ouster provided a glimpse into the bizarre infighting and bitter policy battles that have given the agency under Gorsuch the ambience of a Borgia palace on the Potomac. Appalled by allegations of perjury, conflict of interest and manipulation of federal funds, three more House subcommittees and a Senate...
...release announcing the resignation, but had second thoughts over the weekend and decided that as a presidential appointee she could take her case to the White House. The White House turned a deaf ear, however, and issued a curt statement on Monday that Lavelle was "terminated today at the request of the President." Gorsuch fired several of Lavelle's top aides and put an armed guard in front of her office to prevent her from removing files. "I felt my resignation would be tantamount to admitting I had something to hide," says a still feisty Lavelle. "I certainly...
Unlike Israel, Lebanon has only recently emerged from a civil war and is deeply riven by political strife. At the time of Gemayel's request, Germanos' office was still in ruins from the crossfire in Beirut. Germanos has also been hampered by the need to carry on his regular duties, which included trying 6,752 cases last fall...
...Scott argues that the majority of customers "are radicals or in some way think of themselves as radicals." He notes that his customers include students and professors from area universities who request the store to order books for their courses...
...denied BWH's request that the hospital's part of the four center studs in which the falsified data were included be repeated. They also called for BWH to return the funds awarded it for the study