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...number and quality of steps towards increasing accessibility for the disabled will rise if Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. signs next month Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The law would require institutions, including educational ones, which receive federal funds to make all of their programs accessible. The amendment "would have a really sweeping effect on the right to services for the handicapped," according to Cheryl Davis, a planner in Massachusetts' Department of Community Affairs and a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design. At Harvard, one such effect would be to relieve...
...John J. Walsh, who was the director of HEW's office of investigations when it was looking into the health care center, has sworn in an affadavit that Champion was present at a series of meetings between Walsh and Joseph A. Califano Jr., Secretary of HEW, when Califano demanded that Walsh channel information gleaned during the investigation through the office of HEW's general counsel...
Because Walsh directs most of his charges at Califano rather than Champion, some observers have speculated that the committee's move may be a way for the Senate to examine Califano's action without taking official notice of the charges against him. They have also speculated that Califano's alleged interference in the investigation could have been the result of pressure from California's congressional delegation to get HEW to stop its examination of the state's Medicaid system...
...Joseph Califano, secretary of HEW, was unavailable for comment yesterday, but Winston said that the delay was "no burden at all upon the department...
...thousands of Army lawyers around the world. "It's a rare challenge. It's having an impact on things that matter," said Jill. She may also have her foot in the right door. Her predecessors in the job: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Secretary of HEW Joseph Califano and Strategic Arms Negotiator Nominee Paul Warnke...