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...Both HEW reviewers and University officials have declined to discuss the precise nature of the government's objections to Harvard's latest affirmative action proposal. But sources on both sides have conceded that extensive revision of several portions of the plan must be made to fulfill the HEW standards...
...stands now, Harvard has until August 1 to revise its proposal--as outlined in HEW's June 15 letter of rejection--to meet Federal standards, the usual one month deadline apparently having been extended upon Harvard's request...
...HEW reviewers and Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok and coordinator of the University's affirmative action program, have said that the absence of a departmental breakdown of Faculty projections for hiring women and minority group members was the greatest single shortcoming of Harvard's proposal...
John Bynoe, director of the regional office of HEW, said that no institution will actually lose its Federal funds. Rather, he explained, an institution failing to comply with government standards may be deemed a "non-cooperative contractor" and may be heavily pressured to produce an acceptable affirmative action plan when its Federal contracts near expiration and come up for renewal...
Bynoe said that since HEW rejected Harvard's latest affirmative action program. University administrators had furnished his office with the "required materials" and "we advised them as to what...