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Last week there could be heard in Washington, if not yet a crash, then at least an ominous clattering sound. Ironically, much of the noise came from Nixon's fellow Republicans. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch, who had taken a drubbing a week earlier in the Knowles affair, found himself forced to compromise his strong stand on school desegregation guidelines. That Nixon decision angered liberals of both parties and blacks, as did the Administration's introduction of a transparently weak voting-rights, proposal. An affirmative House vote on the income tax surcharge extension bill constituted...
...been most closely identified are magnolia-scented: textile imports, the controversy over discriminatory labor practices in the textile industry, changes in federal enforcement of school integration. Dent is also widely thought to have helped coalesce the opposition to Dr. John Knowles' appointment as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...PUBLIC HEALTH...
Concerned about Medicaid's rising costs, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare issued a new regulation last week designed to limit the fees charged by doctors and dentists. Such fees accounted for about 29% of the $2.4 billion spent by Washington and the states on Medicaid last year (the Federal Government spent an additional $6 billion on Medicare). Under present regulations, Medicaid fees are determined by the states. The new rule establishes federal standards that will limit fees in most states to the level that prevailed last January. Increases will be permitted, but only under a formula based...
Firmly Established. Most mental-health experts still need to be convinced. For one thing, the exhaustive follow-up studies required to assess the possible limitations of behavioral therapy are just beginning. Psychiatrists wonder how thorough and long-lasting any behavioral treatment-reinforcement or otherwise-can be. To them, "sick" or unusual behavior is a sign of underlying psychosis; no matter how many external symptoms are extinguished, they fear that the deeper problem will keep rising to the surface. Reinforcement experts answer that they have yet to see such "symptom substitution" in their patients...