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NATION, Page 65American NotesWASHINGTONSam, Call Capitol Hill!
While he was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, Samuel Pierce was known as Silent Sam. Now, amid a
burgeoning scandal at HUD, he is courting a new nickname: Invisible
Sam. The House subcommittee on employment and housing would like
to question him again, but, says a member, "finding him is tough."
Investigators contacting Pierce's old Manhattan law firm were
told he resigned in 1981. They would check his business address,
but he doesn't have one. The searchers believe he lives in New
York. Exactly where? Nobody knows. When he is in Washington, he
stays with a friend. Who? Nobody knows. Why not subpoena Pierce?
Well, says a subcommittee staffer, "you have to have an address."
The HUD probe may drag on for months. So could the search for
Silent Sam.