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...newly appointed secretary of the Health Education, and Welfare Department (HEW) did here yesterday that President Nixon intends to combat inflation with a lower Federal budget...
Weinberger declined to comment' on his plans for HEW because he said the Senate confirmation committee must hear them first...
With all his enthusiasm for the balanced budget, Weinberger may be in for some frustrating times at HEW. Even in the $10 billion area, where cuts might still be made next year, lower appropriations may be political poison. Trimming aid to ghetto schools, cutting funds for college students or medical research-all would be difficult and unpopular. Last week Weinberger sighed philosophically: "I had thought this job [at Budget] was the worst in Washington, but there's one [at HEW] that's even worse in terms of problems and hours of work...
...HEW's Stanley Pottinger is right: an affirmative action is suffering from a backlash of rhetoric which the University should actively combat...
Reverse discrimination, for from being required, is actually prohibited by the HEW guidelines. The concept of goals itself embodies this prohibition. Goals are to be set in proportion to the numbers of qualified candidates only. In no case does the goal concept advocate the hiring of an unqualified candidates, regardless of race or sex. Such hiring would equally violate the rights of white males, systematically hiring them out of proportion to their qualified numbers...