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Harvard--threatened with the loss of $60 million in federal contracts from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)--complied, submitting the first in a long series of affirmative action plans. The plan was rejected and a letter from the HEW regional office charged Harvard with discrimination on the basis of sex. At that time only six of the University's 738 tenured faculty members were women...
...easier to reconcile Israel's Ashkenazim and Sephardim than to bridge the chasm between the country's powerful Orthodox Jews and those who hew to more liberal religious views, or simply to secular values. The state is secular, but in personal matters the strict judgments of the Orthodox Rabbinates rule, a hangover from the years when the British, following Ottoman Empire custom, left such powers in the hands of local religious leaders. Thus marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption-all are under the jurisdiction of the religious, not civil, courts. The 250,000 Orthodox Jews wield a political clout...
Jody Powell, 37, former White House press secretary, on why fired HEW Secretary Joseph Califano blasts ex-President Jimmy Carter in his upcoming political memoirs: "Hell hath no fury like a fat cat Washington lawyer scorned...
...mandate to improve the country's defenses. But Weinberger has some distance to go. On several occasions he has compared his present job with his last Cabinet post, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Richard Nixon. As Cap puts it: "The difference is that at HEW you could afford a mistake...
...presidential commission headed by Litton Industries President Roy Ash recommended to Nixon that seven departments (Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Interior, Commerce, HEW and HUD) be merged into four: Natural Resources, Human Resources, Economic Development and Community Development. The proposal was made at a tune when the Democratic Congress felt resentful of Nixon's aggressive assertion of presidential powers, constitutional and otherwise...