Ronald E Robertson

Metalclad Corp., a Newport Beach provider of hazardous-waste treatment and industrial insulation services, said Monday that its chairman and senior vice president, Ronald E. Robertson, has resigned "to pursue other interests." The company named T. Daniel Neveau chairman. He has been a director since July, 1991, and a senior vice president since November, 1992. For fiscal 1992, the company reported a net loss of $4.5 million, compared to a loss of $976,000 the year before.

Metalclad Corp., a Newport Beach provider of hazardous-waste treatment and industrial insulation services, said Monday that its chairman and senior vice president, Ronald E. Robertson, has resigned "to pursue other interests." The company named T. Daniel Neveau chairman. He has been a director since July, 1991, and a senior vice president since November, 1992. For fiscal 1992, the company reported a net loss of $4.5 million, compared to a loss of $976,000 the year before.

Nearly a year after President Reagan's reelection rally on the steps of the County Administration Center, county supervisors on Wednesday abandoned efforts to collect more than $14,000 still owed the taxpayers by the Reagan-Bush campaign. Supervisor Paul Eckert, who assured the public at the time of the Oct. 22 event that the Reagan-Bush campaign would pay the entire bill, confirmed that the board decided in closed session to let the matter drop.

Federal contractors who fire people with AIDS based on fear of contagion cannot be challenged under U.S. civil rights laws protecting the handicapped, the Justice Department ruled in a controversial memorandum issued Monday. The opinion by Assistant Atty. Gen. Charles J. Cooper, who heads the department's office of legal counsel, has widespread significance from legal and political standpoints.