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University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1983
House panel approves Lavelle contempt order
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a resolution yesterday recommending that the House find former Environmental Protection Agency Laverle in contempt of Congress.
Lavelle, who was fired by President Reagan from her job, had refused to honor a subpoena during an investigation by the Justice Department. The toxic waste Superfund program she led.
THE COMMITTEE approved the resolution by voice vote after a brief debate, but a contempt citation, which could lead to a jail term or fine, would be issued only if the full House approved the resolution.
Attorney James Bierbpwer told the committee late Monday that Lavelle was willing to testify but had been unable to do so because she had been looking for a job in her home state of California.
B. But Chairman John Dingell,
D.Mich., said the lawyer's letter was "no
sincere and meaningful effort ... to purge his client from this contempt *"
He urged Lavelle "to move promptly, because I anticipate that the action of the committee here today will be decisive." The committee's consideration in the very near future.
THE COMMITTEE'S action was prompted by Lavelle's failure to honor a subpoena to testify March 21 before the Senate Judiciary Committee which has been investigating the EPA.
Reagan fired her Feb. 7 after her boss, EPA Administrator Anne Burford, failed in efforts to force her resignation.
Burford later resigned as EPA chief in March and 11 other high-level officials have left amid conflict of interest charges.
Some lawmakers have suggested that Laveille may have committed perjury when she testified under oath before various congressional panels about her learning that Aerojet General Corp., her former employer, used the Stringfellow toxic waste dump in Riverside, Calif.
Feinstein easily defeats recall vote
By United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor Diana Feinstein yesterday sounded a attempt to remove her from office in a recall election forced by gun advocates, welfare tenants, homosexuals and street people.
First returns gave her the Democratic mayor 45,398 votes to 5,646 cast by her opponents. All of those votes were mail-in ballots, and the heavy balloting in favor of Feinstein was considered an overwhelming success for his candidate, standing huge home voters to help her beat back the campaign to oust her.
Tom Stevens, leader of the White Panther radical group that collected enough signatures to force the recall election, said immediately after the announcement of the mail-in ballot. But I guess nobody was listening."
He said he had doubts about the honesty of the vote counting and he blamed the media for not giving his radical platform "more than one or two sentences" during the campaign, which began in February. The Panthers' biggest complaint against Feinstein was her strong support of gun control legislation for the city.
AT THE MAYOR's election headquarters, a brass band broke out in song and hundreds of balloons were displayed as the mail ballot returns were announced.
"We showed them. We showed them. We showed (CBS) "60 Minutes" and everybody else," said Fred Ross, one of Fitzwilliam's campaign leaders.
Ross was referring to the CBS television news program last Sunday which the mayor's supporters said was a bad sign and as a haven for hippies and wackos.
The decisive win in the recall was widely seen as thrusting Feinstein into consideration as a vice presidential candidate when the Democratic convention is held in San Francisco next year.
"It would be hard for her not to be interested in national political office; with the attention being given her now," said Ross.
POLLS TAKEN before the election had given Feinstein, 49, a strong edge, with predictions up to 65 percent of the vote. The only question on the
ballot was: "Shall Dianne Feinstein be recalled (removed) from the office of mayor?"
"This was an election I never expected to see," the mayor told reporters at the precinct across the street from her Pacific Heights mansion after she cast a "no" vote in the primary last year. "It's the most difficult kind of election because it's personal. But I am confident of the outcome."
About 80,000 voters were expected to go to the polls and city voting officials had estimated another 60,000 voters would be registered. The city has 350,000 registered voters.
About a thousand opponents of the mayor canvassed neighborhoods door-to-door and by telephone throughout the day, even though one of his neighbors, teachers, David Brigide, conceded, "She's going to win. It's in the bag."
Feinstein forces also waged a day-long telephone campaign to get out the vote. The mayor had said he would like voters to be voter apathy or complacency.
On campus
TODAY
THE CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER SESSION will be silent prayer and a parable, "The Half-Key" by Ed Hays; at 7:45 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
ERIC SCHUMANN will speak about the Gay Plague and other Lies' at 'The Gay Project' on March 20.
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM will feature Larry Wrightman speaking on "Psychology and Law in Conflict," at the Seminarium, incumeculous Ministries Center.
THE AIR FORCE SPECIALTY VAN,
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A FACULTY RECITAL by Ronald McCurdy, trumpet; Chuck Bung, tenor saxophone and flute; and Dick Wright, bassoon and Swartwhatch. Renaissance Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
"THE SEAGULL," by Anton Chebbi, will be at 8 p.m. in the Craftsman Center.
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