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Interviewed by TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and Correspondent Simmons Fentress, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano talked of past and present attempts to deal with the nation's enduring problem of poverty...
...battle arena is Washington, where the antiabortionists have the tacit support of President Jimmy Carter, who personally opposes abortion and has repeatedly said that he does not think the Federal Government should do anything to encourage it. Almost alone at the Department of HEW, which administers Medicaid, Secretary Joseph Califano shares Carter's view. When he submitted HEW's budget for the fiscal year beginning in October, he urged that no Medicaid funds be used for nontherapeutic abortions...
...help finance the fashionable George Town Club, which Park founded in 1966 as a way to get cozy with top U.S. officials. The posh club's 1976 roster of 400 members included six Supreme Court Justices; former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz; Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano and a score of Senators and Representatives. In all, federal investigators believe, Park may have spent as much as $2 million on parties at the club he had founded and gifts for his friends...
...blessings of the Carter Administration, which has set as a goal the inoculation by the fall of 1979 of 90% of all American youngsters-not only against measles but against five other avoidable diseases as well: polio, whooping cough, German measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Says HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr.: "Our national failure to protect our young from preventable diseases is shocking [and] a national disgrace...
...principles were virtually undisputed, but where could an estimated $2.4 billion be found to carry out the rehabilitation programs? After months of Government inaction during the Ford-Carter transition, the handicapped began demonstrating from San Francisco to Boston. Bending to the sympathy they aroused, Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, finally signed regulations last month to enforce the legislation, proclaiming as he did so a "new era in civil rights...