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...months ago by warning that his findings would not be swayed by political considerations. Last week, before a packed Washington press conference, he ended the study with the same forthrightness. In issuing a 269-page draft of the commission's final report, he managed both to show a fine disregard for prevailing prejudices about AIDS and to issue a sharp challenge to the Reagan Administration. Going beyond a National Academy of Sciences report also released last week that criticized the White House for an "absence of strong leadership" in the AIDS fight, Watkins declared, "The system has failed...
...leaks. "The allegation is categorically, simply, flatly not true," he told TIME. Nevertheless, officials on Capitol Hill point to further indiscretions. One states that Sullivan has repeatedly used secret material on arms control in letters written for Helms and other Senators. "He's got a reckless disregard for the proper handling of classified information," says the official. Sullivan says there is no truth to these allegations...
...more heavy-handed tactics, Taylor fought the union mainly on her own. A valiant effort, but a losing one from the start. She was the fall guy in a battle the University did not let her fight to win. The administration's isolation of Taylor is indicative of its disregard for women--probably reason enough for employees to switch their votes to HUCTW...
...labor expert said, "If the administration had wanted to win at all costs, they could have." Maybe the administration is extremely concerned for employee relations after all. But in actions ranging from its willful disregard of student input to its inability to eradicate institutional sexism, the administration has yet to prove concern for anything but self-perpetuation. Maybe having a union with 3400 members to contend with will be enough to loosen the hierarchy's hold on power and spur reform...
...that put up unfair trade barriers against American products. In the past, the White House could ignore findings by the International Trade Commission, a Government agency, that U.S. industries were being hurt by foreign competition. Under the terms of the trade bill, the President would have less latitude to disregard the commission's recommendations that these industries be given import relief. The bill would also require that the White House launch investigations of countries that maintain "numerous and pervasive" trade barriers and would authorize the President to retaliate against a broad range of exports from those nations...