ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Friday, December 20, 1996 TAG: 9612200045
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-13 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
SOURCE: Associated Press
President Clinton tentatively selected four new Cabinet secretaries Thursday, including an old Arkansas ally and the son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a senior official said.
Filling out his second-term team, Clinton also chose a chief economic adviser and tentatively settled on a new Small Business Administration director.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, cautioned that Clinton was reviewing the selections late into the night Thursday to address concerns that the group may not be as ethnically diverse as he had hoped.
Final decisions had not been made.
The choices, which Clinton planned to announce today, are:
*Andrew Cuomo, an assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to replace HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.
*Federal Highway Administrator Rodney Slater, a top state highway administrator in Arkansas when Clinton was its governor, to replace Transportation Secretary Federico Pena.
*Alexis Herman, a senior White House aide, to replace Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
*Elizabeth Moler, a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member, to replace Hazel O'Leary as energy secretary.
*Aida Alvarez, director of federal housing enterprise oversight at HUD, to replace SBA director Phil Lader.
Federal Reserve Board member Janet Yellen will be nominated today to replace Joseph Stiglitz as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
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