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...legislation. "It's no secret that this is a political payment on a 1976 promise and a down payment on the 1980 election," says Bruce Wood of the House Subcommittee on Education and Labor." The Department of Education represents the spoils of interest group politics." Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) observes that the National Education Association--the bill's hardest pushing and most important lobby--never endorsed a presidential candidate until Carter promised he would create a Department of Education. Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R-Ill.) is less kind. "H.R. 13778 is a political payoff in every sense...
...handles the issue in the office. Schmidt's (read: Harvard's) concerns are echoed by national decision-makers. "Frankly, I am appalled by the rush of some members of Congress to create this department despite the lack of information available about the actual impact of these structural changes," Rep. Chisholm told the House Government Operations Committee last year. Chisholm labels the department "a $17 million shot in the dark...
ENGAGED. Shirley Chisholm, 52, the first black woman to be elected to Congress (from Brooklyn in 1968) and to try for the presidency (as a Democrat in the 1972 primaries); and Arthur Hard wick Jr., 61, an architectural designer and onetime politician who served with Chisholm in the New York State assembly in 1964-66. Last February the Congresswoman divorced her husband, social service investigator Conrad Chisholm, after 28 years of marriage, citing "irreconcilable differences...
...Chisholm '72 and Harvey Halpurn, a cancer researcher at Tufts Medical School, spoke at a section meeting of Biology 106, "Biology and Social Issues," on the medical effects of radiation, alternatives to atomic power, and public subsidies to the nuclear industry...
...whether black voters will pick Buckley, who has consistently voted against social welfare programs that benefit many poor blacks, but whether they will vote at all. And despite the Council of Black Elected Democrats' refusal to endorse Moynihan, over ten of its members, including Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) have done so individually...