The Army Secretary's Business

It's not every administration official of secretarial rank who can get called on the carpet for personal behavior by influential senators of both parties. In fact, it seldom happens. But Secretary White found himself on the receiving end of a rebuke from Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John Warner (R-Va.), chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, for retaining options to purchase Enron stock until January, eight months after he told the committee he would divest his holdings to avoid potential conflicts of interest. "An inaccurate representation" and violation of his Senate ethics agreement, they charged.