71.   Gov. George Pataki on Tuesday named a former deputy commissioner who helped devise his policy on toxic waste cleanup to head the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

72.   Hammerbeck, former deputy commander of British forces here, is executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce.

73.   Harold Ickes, a former deputy chief of staff and frequent political adviser to Clinton this year, also testified late last week.

74.   He is also gathering names on a petition, headed by a former deputy governor and a senator from Okinawa, urging the return of the statue.

75.   He replaced Norma Samaniego de Villareal, his former deputy at the Labor Ministry.

76.   He then retracted his warning, but Ephraim Sneh, the transportation minister and former deputy defense minister, echoed his frustration on Sunday.

77.   He tried to depict Smith as soft on crime, although the Democrat is a former deputy prosecutor.

78.   He was close to Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden and to William Thompson Jr., the former deputy borough president and now president of the school board.

79.   Hicks, Muse also said it had named Richard W. Fisher, former deputy US trade representative, to its Latin America strategy board.

80.   Hirschfeld also has a new lawyer, RANDY MASTRO, a former deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration.