CABINET APPOINTMENT:
Los Alamos Ally Gets Top DOE Post
Andrew Lawler
Ending months of speculation, President Bill Clinton last week said he would nominate U.S. United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson to succeed Federico Peña as head of the Department of Energy (DOE). The move would put a former seven-term congressman whose district included DOE's oldest weapons lab at the helm of the $16.6 billion department. Richard Holbrooke, a former State Department official, was named to replace Richardson.