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President Nixon used the pocket veto during a six-day Christmas break in 1970 to kill a Kennedy-backed medical-aid bill that authorized $225 million to train general practitioners. Nixon said the program was too expensive. Kennedy got Congress to appropriate money anyway, but HEW refused to spend it. Charging the Administration with derogation of the powers of Congress, Kennedy went to court to compel the two defendants to have the act officially published...
...aides to Illinois Senator Charles Percy. Other intriguing possibilities passed over by Nixon include New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who has drifted toward the right recently and had apparently bridged the once bitter breach separating him and Nixon, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, Ambassador to the United Nations George Bush, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and Interior Secretary Rogers Morton...
...institute also publishes a monthly journal, USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology, that offers occasional translated reprints from the American press and articles on U.S. affairs by Soviet America watchers. The reprints are tendentiously edited to emphasize U.S. faults, and Soviet contributors faithfully hew the party line. Even so, USA contains more information, more sophisticated interpretation and less doctrinaire doubletalk than any other official Soviet publication. "Telling and hearing the truth, as we see it, about the U.S. will not harm our society," says Arbatov. Still, USA is considered a bit too candid for the masses: it is not sold...
Home Teaching. The Moores believe that some form of preschool learning might well take place in the home, with state-hired professionals advising parents on how to nurture their children's growth (a technique currently being tried by HEW's Children's Bureau in Washington). "We must find a child's natural habitat and improve it," Raymond Moore told TIME, "and that habitat is the home." Even in poor families, he says, "most mothers want to stimulate and teach their children but first must be taught how to do it." Only when there is no alternative...
...daughters, had just earned a doctorate in education from the University of Maryland when she decided that she was capable of a better career than two part-time jobs that paid her a grand total of $5,000. So she went to work in 1970 as a psychologist for HEW and devoted her spare time to the Washington-based Women's Equity Action League. In the two years since then, she has become leader of the campaign to get more and better teaching jobs for women. She has filed some 250 complaints with federal agencies alleging sex discrimination...