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Guerrilla warfare against legalese is busting out all over. For example, the Federal Trade Commission has assigned Language Expert Rudolf Flesch, author of several books on plain English, to redraft some ordinarily impenetrable regulations. Joseph Califano has recently hired Barnard College Political Scientist Inez Smith Reid to improve and simplify Health, Education and Welfare Department prose. Among other agency heads arguing for brevity and clarity, Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Daniel O'Neal last spring issued an exhortation stating: "English is a remarkably clear, flexible and useful language. We should use it in all our communications...
Most of the Government, however, remains impervious to presidential commands. After all, Presidents come and go; the civil service endures. One of the most durable bureaucracies is HEW, with its $53 billion budget. A centralizer of the old school, Secretary Joseph Califano reversed the decentralization undertaken by the Nixon and Ford Administrations. The ten regional directors were shorn of their independence, which was returned to Washington for safekeeping despite Carter's promise to restore "Government to the people." HEW argues that its 370 programs need to be run from headquarters for the sake of consistency; divergent decisions, the department feels...
...days later, Sears was so cited by Secretary Joseph Califano, who solemnly announced that his department, ever alert, had caught a total of 49 such culprits -37 school districts plus twelve colleges. All had failed to fill out the Title IX forms. At least 19 of them, like Sears, had never received HEW money in the first place, but no matter. All were told that their funds would be cut off as of Jan. 8 and ordered to answer charges some time next year at the nearest HEW regional office...
...Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano, who advertised for "an extremely confidential personal assistant ... responsible for managing, performing and supervising work related to the operation of the Secretary's kitchen and eating area " As it happens, he was looking for a chef...
...deal might prejudice Schorr's ongoing troubles with Congress. So CBS and Schorr put out a statement that he was only being "relieved of all reporting duties," and this coverup, as Schorr calls it, was insistently repeated by both sides. Later, with the help of his lawyer (Joe Califano, whose $150,000 legal fees-were paid by CBS), Schorr defended himself before the House Ethics Committee. Salant now proposed to take Schorr back; Schorr was tempted. But Lawyer Califano told him: "You're mad. There's nothing left to go back to. They just want...