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...Committee, Mississippi has only four military installations and three defense contractors. Nevertheless, the report suggests darkly that Stennis "may be taking the pork back to his economically beleaguered state." Although the report writer eloquently describes the poverty in which many Mississippians live, he seems to resent the fact that HEW and the Department of Agriculture respectively pumped $549,622,946 and $372,261,953 into the state. Would he have preferred that Stennis, who sits on the appropriations committees for both departments, oppose such appropriations for his own state...
More recently, it has been ably supported by the current HEW Secretary, Elliot Richardson, and by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills, who put it at the top of the House agenda in 1971. But the opposition-both right and left-was just as determined. On the right, Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, filibustered the House bill through the latter part of 1971 and 1972. This summer Long's committee added some stiff work provisions that would have required 1.2 million recipients to accept federally guaranteed, low-paying jobs...
Walter J. Leonard, assistant to the President, is expected to meet with HEW representatives in the next two weeks to discuss the grievance procedures...
...Harvard's plan fails to comply with the HEW guidelines on these and other questions of employment practices, the University stands to lose all of its Federal funding, amounting to more than $54 million. It appears unlikely, however, that a satisfactory resolution of differences will not occur...
Commenting on the situation. Robert Randolph one of the HEW officers working on Harvard's cases, said. "We have no reason to believe that they are not going to supply us with the material we've asked...