Word: finches
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Three weeks ago, the Nixon Administration asked a federal court to delay the enforcement of an order requiring 30 Mississippi school districts to integrate this fall. According to Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch, the delay, which will forestall integration in these districts for at least a year, was necessary to prevent "chaos, confusion and a catastrophic educational setback." Last week, TIME Correspondent Marvin Zim traveled to Mississippi to examine Finch's premise in a district typical of those granted a reprieve. He sent this report...
...there is confusion over whether these expectations will be fulfilled quickly. Although Richard Nixon has been silent lately on this issue, the two Cabinet officers who share jurisdiction over school integration-Attorney General John Mitchell and Secretary Robert Finch of Health, Education and Welfare -have made some alarming and ambiguous moves. Their effect is to raise the question: Is the Administration pulling back from the scheduled pace of desegregation? The rhetoric, to be sure, remains pro-civil rights, and in some respects the Administration has been both progressive and innovative. Finch, earlier thought of as the Cabinet liberal...
...retreat from the Government's previous insistence that 33 recalcitrant Mississippi school districts meet this year's deadline for desegregation-after a federal district court in Jackson, Miss., had requested that HEW draw up a plan for each district, to be put into effect this month. Finch asked that the move be delayed until December, contending that the plans had been hastily drawn and unclear, and Justice supported him. Three days after the rebels met, the court granted the Administration's request for a delay...
...expert help had been regarded as a significant development in the drive for integration. By taking cases in groups, this approach would save time. Since the programs would be created by the Office of Education's personnel, they obviously would be in compliance with federal regulations. Finch and Mitchell seemed to be blunting a new and apparently important weapon. Word passed within the Justice Department that they had acted out of political pressure from Southern leaders. That feeling arose because Mitchell, as Nixon's campaign manager, advocated the appeal for Southern votes that helped elect Nixon...
...bill that would allow HEW Secretary Robert Finch to increase the interest ceiling on student loans to 10% has been passed by the Senate, but a similar bill has been stalled in the House by the threat of amendments aimed at curbing student disorders...